Vista - Dynamic content of a FlowDocument

Hello,

I'm trying to do binding between a CLR object and a FlowDocument. The
FlowDocument should present several attributes of the object. In other
words, I would like to apply a general template throught the FlowDocument and
replace only some of the element with the proper data. I know I can do that
with C# "easily" but it is defining the structure of the document in a very
hardcoded way. I rather like to use XAML and data binding.

In an ideal situation, I would like to do the following:
<FlowDocument
ColumnGap="20.0"
ColumnRuleWidth="5.0"
Background="White" Name="MyFlowDocument">
<Paragraph FontSize="18">
<Bold>{Binding Title}</Bold>
<LineBreak/>
<Italic FontSize="14">{Binding Author}</Italic>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph>{Binding Publication}</Paragraph>
<Paragraph TextAlignment="Left">{Binding Summary}</Paragraph>

As you can imagine, I have no binding but the binding command displayed on
screen.

Is there any way to do the binding?

Frederik Delacourt

Flow content is not very suitable for binding. The only way I can think of is
to use TextBlock, something like that:
<FlowDocument >
<Paragraph FontSize="18">
<Bold><TextBlock Text="{Binding Title}"/></Bold>
<LineBreak/>
<Italic FontSize="14"><TextBlock Text="{Binding
Author}"/></Italic>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph><TextBlock Text="{Binding Publication}"/></Paragraph>
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Valentin Iliescu [MVP - Client Application Development]


"Frederik Delacourt" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to do binding between a CLR object and a FlowDocument. The
> FlowDocument should present several attributes of the object. In other
> words, I would like to apply a general template throught the FlowDocument and
> replace only some of the element with the proper data. I know I can do that
> with C# "easily" but it is defining the structure of the document in a very
> hardcoded way. I rather like to use XAML and data binding.
>
> In an ideal situation, I would like to do the following:
> <FlowDocument
> ColumnGap="20.0"
> ColumnRuleWidth="5.0"
> Background="White" Name="MyFlowDocument">
> <Paragraph FontSize="18">
> <Bold>{Binding Title}</Bold>
> <LineBreak/>
> <Italic FontSize="14">{Binding Author}</Italic>
> </Paragraph>
> <Paragraph>{Binding Publication}</Paragraph>
> <Paragraph TextAlignment="Left">{Binding Summary}</Paragraph>
>
> As you can imagine, I have no binding but the binding command displayed on
> screen.
>
> Is there any way to do the binding?
>
> Frederik Delacourt
>