Silverlight 3 - Data Binding Position of a rectangle on a canvas

Question

I am currently trying to bind a collection of objects to a Canvas in Silverlight 3 using an ItemsControl as below:

Answer 1

I realize that this already has an answer accepted, but the way to achieve the initial goal without messing with margins is to create a custom ItemsControl and override the PrepareContainerForItemOverride method. In this method, you set the binding in code.

public class CustomItemsCollection
    : ItemsControl
{
    protected override void PrepareContainerForItemOverride(DependencyObject element, object item)
    {

        FrameworkElement contentitem = element as FrameworkElement;
        Binding leftBinding = new Binding("Left"); // "Left" is the property path that you want to bind the value to.
        contentitem.SetBinding(Canvas.LeftProperty, leftBinding);

        base.PrepareContainerForItemOverride(element, item);
    }

}