Bind visibility property to a variable

Question

I have a Border with Label inside a Window,

Answer 1

You can't bind field. You can only bind public properties or dependency properties.

Using public property (you have to implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface to have property->binding):

public partial class MainWindow : Window, INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    private bool vis;
    public bool Vis
    {
        get { return vis; }
        set
        {
            if (vis != value)
            {
                vis = value;
                OnPropertyChanged("Vis");  // To notify when the property is changed
            }
        }
    }

    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        Vis = true;
        // DataContext explains WPF in which object WPF has to check the binding path. Here Vis is in "this" then:
        DataContext = this;          
    }

    private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        Vis = !Vis;  // Test Code
    }

    #region INotifyPropertyChanged implementation
    // Basically, the UI thread subscribes to this event and update the binding if the received Property Name correspond to the Binding Path element
    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
    protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
    {
        PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;
        if (handler != null)
            handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
    }
    #endregion
}

The XAML code is: