In WPF how to get binding of a specific item from the code?

Question

The example of this would be:

A textBox is bound to some data. There is a second text box which is not bind to anything. So I want to bind text box 2 to the same dat

Answer 1

You can get the binding of any dependency object using

System.Windows.Data.BindingOperations.GetBinding(DependencyObject target,DependencyProperty dp)

then set the binding with

System.Windows.FrameworkElement.SetBinding(DependencyProperty dp, string path)

For example:

var binding = BindingOperations.GetBinding(textBox1,TextBox.TextProperty);
textBox2.SetBinding(TextBox.TextProperty, binding);

Answer 2

You can do this in code by calling the SetBinding method.

Answer 3

I know there's already an accepted answer, but is there some reason you're just not doing this?

<TextBox Name="textBox1" Text="{Binding Text1}"/>
<TextBox Name="textBox2" Text="{Binding Text, ElementName=textBox1}"/>

Now whatever textBox1 is bound to, even if that binding changes, textBox2 is as well, no code-behind needed.

Granted I'm basing this on the XAML as presented, and you very well may need the binding itself from code for something else, but if not, the above works just fine.

Answer 4

Try this

Xaml

<TextBox Name="textBox1" Text="{Binding Text1}"/>
<TextBox Name="textBox2" Text="No Binding"/>

Then we can set the binding of the TextProperty for textBox2 to the same as textBox1 with this code behind

BindingExpression bindingExpression = textBox1.GetBindingExpression(TextBox.TextProperty);
Binding parentBinding = bindingExpression.ParentBinding;
textBox2.SetBinding(TextBox.TextProperty, parentBinding);