If you've done much work with Bindings in Silverlight, you're probably aware that Silverlight doesn't support applying Bindings using a Style's Setter the same way its big brother WPF does. This limitation isn't a big deal at first because people don't tend to need that until they're more familiar with the platform and have started using MVVM and taking advantage of the ItemContainerStyle property. But once you're working with scenarios where it's relevant, being able to specify Bindings in a Setter Go to the complete details ...