How to associate a column heading with a property in a ViewModel? (WPF MVVM)

Question

I have a window with a DataContext attached to a ViewModel (e.g. VM1). VM1 has many properties, and one of them is a string called MyTitle.

I have a DataGridTextColumn in 'Window \ Grid \ DataGrid'. How do I bind the Title property in a DataGridTextColumn to the MyTitle property in my VM1 ViewModel?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Unfortunately, DataGrid column definitions do not inherit DataContext because they are not part of the visual tree, so you cannot directly bind to the ViewModel. You need to turn to a workaround, for example, described in this article :

 <DataGrid.Resources> <local:BindingProxy x:Key="proxy" Data="{Binding}" /> </DataGrid.Resources> ... <DataGridTextColumn Header="{Binding Data.MyTitle, Source={StaticResource proxy}}"/>