Thomas Levesque • 11/18/2008

[WPF] Binding to application settings using a markup extension

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This technical blog post explains how to create a custom markup extension in WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) that inherits from the Binding class. It addresses the verbosity of directly binding UI properties to application settings in XAML and provides an elegant solution to simplify persistence of user preferences like window size and position.

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