Silverlight 4 Databinding and VS2010

If you've got a data driven application, databinding is the infrastructure of choice that makes the link between data and your UX

Silverlight 4 has a few improvments that brings it closer to WPF

• TargetNullValue - lets you specify the what to display in the target when the source value is null

e.g. {Binding Path=Name, TargetNullValue=NoName}

• StringFormat - specify how a strnig should be formatted

e.g. {Binding Path=Salary, StringFormat=C}

• FallbackValue - I love this one, comes in pretty handy when dealing with polymorphic classes where a you know in advance what properties specialized classes have and want to display them... or display a fallback value if they don't exist.

e.g. {Binding Path=LastLoggedOn, FallbackValue=Never}