Can an item in an ItemsControl be the target of a binding?

Question

In the code below I want the second item to be bound to a property on my viewmodel. How do I accomplish that? I don't want to create a list or ObservableCollection in code.

<ItemsControl>
    <ItemsControl.Items>
        <local:InfoTableItem Data="Hi there!"/>
        <local:InfoTableItem Data="{Binding MyProperty}"/>
    </ItemsControl.Items>
    <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <StackPanel>
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Data}"/>
            </StackPanel>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>




public class InfoTableItem : DependencyObject
{

    public string Data
    {
        get { return (string)GetValue(DataProperty); }
        set { SetValue(DataProperty, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty DataProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("Data", typeof(string), typeof(InfoTableItem), new PropertyMetadata(String.Empty));

}

Answer 1

This question is a more concise statement of the question asked here:

How do I write this ItemsControl so WPF will use bindings to generate columns for the output grid

See the above for the answer.