Best way to bind WPF properties to ApplicationSettings in C#?

Question

What is the best way to bind WPF properties to ApplicationSettings in C#? Is there an automatic way like in a Windows Forms Application? Similar to this question, how (and

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to bind to an object that exposes your application settings as properties or to include that object as a StaticResource and bind to that.

Another direction you could take is creation your own Markup Extension so you can simply use PropertyName="{ApplicationSetting SomeSettingName}". To create a custom markup extension you need to inherit MarkupExtension and decorate the class with a MarkupExtensionReturnType attribute. John Bowen has a post on creating a custom MarkupExtension that might make the process a little clearer.