Are “{Binding Path=.}” and “{Binding}” really equal

Question

In my WPF project, I have a ListBox that displays items from a List collection. I wanted to make the text of these items editable, so I wrapped ea

Answer 1

These are not the same. If you bind this where ConsoleMessages is an ObservableCollection string with just {Binding} you get a "Two-way binding requires Path or XPath." exception where as {Binding Path=.} works. This is with WPF 4.0...

My 2p worth...