Caliburn Micro Xamarin Forms Binding Codebehind

Question

I'm using Caliburn.Micro.Xamarin.Forms MVVM framework in my PCL Xamarin Forms. I don't know how to bind the viewModel from the view in my code-behind xaml.cs

Example:

In XAML would be:

<Label Text={Binding Username}/>

But I need to write this in the code-behind so:

Label= new Label{
 Text= ....?
};

Anyone can help me?

Answer 1

Although this stuff is fairly easy to find on Google I will lay it out for you.

Create the Label first then bind the Text property. So use code like:

var label = new Label(); label.SetBinding(Label.TextProperty, new Binding("PropertyOnYourViewModel"));

If you have the C# 6 features available to you, also get rid of the nasty magic string and do it like this:

var label = new Label(); label.SetBinding(Label.TextProperty, new Binding(nameof(PropertyOnYourViewModel)));