Binding a XAML control visibility to a ViewModel variable in WPF
Some instructions on how to bind the visibility of a XAML button control to a boolean value in a ViewModel class. 1. Create a new WPF application 2. Add the View Model class Right click your project folder and select Add > New Item > Class. Name your class MainWindowViewModel.cs: In your ViewModel class include the property to get the visibility setting. For reasons of simplicity this simply returns a value of true for now, but in your own implementations, feel free to make the getters and setters do what you like. [code language="csharp"] using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; namespace Visibility { public class MainWindowViewModel { public bool ButtonVisibility { get { return true; } } } } [/code] 3. Update your MainWindow.xaml code to do the following: - add a button - set the DataContext property - declare and use ...