Binding to static classes in Windows Phone 7 - by Matt Lacey
It's a common request to be able to bind to a global variable in various parts of an application. It's often common that such variables are static.
This question seems to pop up in forums rather regularly and often the advice given is that this isn't possible or to include the "global" variable as part of the model being used as the DataContext of the page. Such duplication of functionality in the model is a bad idea and totally unnecessary.
It's not possible to bind to a static class as binding requires an object instance.
You can, however, bind to static properties of a class.
So we can bind to the static properties of the following.
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