Set the Default Date of WPF Date Picker to Current Date

Question

I have a WPF Datagrid in which one of the columns is a Date Column.

So i have used a DataTemplateColumn as Follows

Answer 1

Unless you have a property in your DataContext called Now, your Bindings will fail. Instead, you should be using the {x:Static} syntax like so:

Since DateTime isn't in the standard XAML namespace, you need to add a xmlns declaration to the root element: