绑定到静态类的静态属性

Question

I'm searching for a way to bind the ItemsSource of a GridView to the static property of a static class .

Since the class is static I can't set the (Binding).Source to an instance of the class and setting it to the property doesn't work.

Unfortunately the XAML markup extensions x:Static doesn't work for Windows Apps so that's not an option either.

Marking this bold since people obviously DO NOT understand that the WPF answer DOES NOT work in Windows Runtime. How about reading the question before marking it as duplicate...

Answer 1

This worked for me with no problems.

public static class StaticClass 
{ 
    public static ObservableCollection<string> StaticStrings = new ObservableCollection<string>(); 
} 

private void ComboBox_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) 
{ 
    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) 
    { 
        StaticClass.StaticStrings.Add("static" + i.ToString()); 
    } 
    this.DataContext = StaticClass.StaticStrings; 
}