I'm not entirely sure that data binding is a good approach in general. I spent quite a bit of time on a Silverlight MVVM project too, and the data binding ther

I'm not entirely sure that data binding is a good approach in general. I spent quite a bit of time on a Silverlight MVVM project too, and the data binding there got to be more trouble than it was worth as well. Seems like data binding separates the what (user input causes model to update) from the how (markup bindings magically translate to updated model) and that just makes an unmaintainable mess.