That binding system is XAML specific. If you bypass XAML, you bypass the magic string binding as well. I found interfaces a lot easier to build when I ditched

That binding system is XAML specific. If you bypass XAML, you bypass the magic string binding as well. I found interfaces a lot easier to build when I ditched the declarative markup and interfaced with the control system directly. XAML as far as I can tell was introduced as an attempt to woo web developers; but it's a thin layer ON TOP of WPF. It seems like a lot of people believe it IS WPF. WPF goes very deep.