Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

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CHAPTER 8 ■ .NET 3.0: WINDOWS PRESENTATION FOUNDATION
2. Open the App.xaml file in XAML view and change the StartupURI attribute to the
name of the window that you just created (i.e., GetAddresses.xaml). This instructs
the application to load that window at startup.
3. The window will have a grid on it called LayoutRoot. Select this and find the
property called DataContext. Click the small square to the right of the New button
in the DataContext editor to open the advanced properties drop-down (see
Figure 8-19).
Figure 8-19. Setting the advanced properties for the Grid’s DataContext
4. On this list, select Data Binding.
5. In the dialog that pops up, select + XML Data to add an XML data source.
6. This gives another dialog (Figure 8-20 shows both dialogs), where you can name
the XML data and point it to the XML file that you created earlier.
7. When you click OK, the data source will be created and added to the “Data sources”
list on the Create Data Binding dialog. Its fields will be listed on the right. As the
data source has a collection of Address nodes, these will be indicated as an array
in the Fields list (see Figure 8-21).