Why does WPF databinding swallow exceptions?

Question

I recently wasted a lot of time trying to debug a WPF datagrid (from the WPF Toolkit). I had a column bound to a linq query with a property that was throwing an exception (i

Answer 1

I implemented a solution very similar to the one proposed by Karsten:

1. Derived a TraceListener that throws instead of logging
2. Added that listener to PresentationTraceSources.DataBindingSource

Please see the complete solution on GitHub, it includes a demo application and a unit test project.