I have just been playing with some XAML databinding. I was interested by the Channel 9 Example which creates an RSS reader in just a couple of lines of XAML
I hooked it up to Amazons REST API. I had a couple of problems with it that I will go into later. But what follows is the XAML that I used [also it can be downloaded from my server]:<StackPanelxmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/avalon/2005" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/xaml/2005" Margin="10"> <StackPanel.Resources> <XmlDataNamespaceManager x:Key="NS"> <XmlNamespace Prefix="a"Uri="http://webservices.amazon.com/ AWSECommerceService /2005-10-05" /> </XmlDataNamespaceManager> <XmlDataSource x:Key="Amazon" XmlNamespaceManager="{StaticResource NS}"Source="http://webservices.amazon.co.uk/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&AssociateTag=cnetfra-21& AWSAccessKeyId=[SUBSCRIPTION ID]& SearchIndex=Books& Keywords=AJAX& BrowseNode=71& ResponseGroup=Request,Large,Images& Sort=salesrank& Operation=ItemSearch"/> <DataTemplate x:Key="TitleTemplate"> <TextBlock TextContent="{Binding XPath=a:ASIN}" /> </DataTemplate> </StackPanel.Resources> <Label Content="{Binding Source={StaticResource Amazon}, XPath=/a:ItemSearchResponse/a:OperationRequest/ a:HTTPHeaders/a:Header/@Name}" FontSize="24" FontWeight="Bold" /> <DockPanel DataContext="{Binding Source={StaticResource Amazon}, XPath=/a:ItemSearchResponse/a:Items/a:Item}" Height="300px" > <ListBox DockPanel.Dock="Left" Binding.XmlNamespaceManager="{StaticResource NS}"ItemsSource="{Binding}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource TitleTemplate}" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True" /> <TextBox Name="Contents" Text="{Binding XPath=a:ItemAttributes/a:Title}" Wrap="True" Width="Auto" /> </DockPanel></StackPanel>The major problem that I had was that the AMAZON API has a default namespace, therefore to be able to use XPath against the datasource you need to include a NamespaceManager so that the XPath queries are resolved correctly. Once this is done everything is really simple.Now this example I have created leaves a lot to be desired, but you can see how easy it to create.
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