How to bind XmlDataProvider.Source to MVVM property

Question

I\'ve got a treeview bound to an XmlDataProvider following this example. The app I am working on is following the MVVM pattern and the Xml is from a file that t

Answer 1

actually that was rather tough problem for me, cause I needed the app to load treeview from temp file, and assuming application can have different locations, I can't set strict link in the XmlDataProvider Source property;

Add source as resource to the project

the solution I found is adding temp file (markup is created via XAML, see below) to the project with build action set to Content thus, application reloads it every time you call InitializeComponent() on the object containing XmlDataProvider and my treeview updates.

TreeView is bound like this:

Maybe this will help someone