Setting the DataContext property to a view model instance in your page markup can increase the "designability" of your pages in Visual Studio and Blend for Visual Studio. In this post I explain why, and demonstrate how it works. So that a page's UI elements can bind to a view model's properties and commands, the view model is assigned to the page's DataContext property. A common dev practice is to set the DataContext value for a page imperatively, using code-behind. Here's an example from a sample app I created, called Bookstore.


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