How can I bind a background color in WPF/XAML?

Question

What do I have to change to the following code so that the background is red, neither of the 2 ways I tried worked:

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Answer 1

You assigned a string "Red". Your Background property should be of type Color:

using System.Windows;
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace TestBackground88238
{
    public partial class Window1 : Window, INotifyPropertyChanged
    {

        #region ViewModelProperty: Background
        private Color _background;
        public Color Background
        {
            get
            {
                return _background;
            }

            set
            {
                _background = value;
                OnPropertyChanged("Background");
            }
        }
        #endregion

        //...//
}

Then you can use the binding to the SolidColorBrush like this:

public Window1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    DataContext = this;

    Background = Colors.Red;
    Message = "This is the title, the background should be " + Background.toString() + ".";

}

not 100% sure about the .toString() method on Color-Object. It might tell you it is a Color-Class, but you will figur this out ;)