Data binding to a collection

As we learned about object data binding to show a single object on the UI, let's begin with binding a collection of data objects in a UI to display all the records to the user. We will discuss it in this recipe.

Getting ready

Open a Visual Studio instance and create a new project called CH04.CollectionBindingDemo. Make sure you use the WPF application project template.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to create a collection data model and bind it to the UI, using a DataGrid control:

1. Inside the Solution Explorer, right-click on the project. From the context menu, navigate to Add | Class... to create a class file named Employee.cs.
2. Open the Employee.cs file and replace the class implementation with the following code:

public class Employee 
{ 
    public string FirstName { get; set; } 
    public string LastName { get; set; } 
    public string Department { get; set; } 
} 

3. Navigate to the MainWindow.xaml.cs file and add the following using statement to define...