How to instantiate DataContext object in XAML

Question

I want to be able to create an instance of the DataContext object for my WPF StartupUri window in XAML, as opposed to creating it code and then setting the

Answer 1

You can just specify this directly in XAML for the entire Window:

This creates a view model named "CustomViewModel" in the namespace aliased to local, directly as the DataContext for the Window.