Implicit Data Templates in Silverlight 5

One cool new feature of Silverlight 5 is Implicit Data Template. You use Data Templates in Silverlight to control the way you display data while doing DataBinding. Until now DataTemplates were defined inside a control or linked to a resource with a key.

Implicit DataTemplate allows templates to be automatically applied to databound items based on their types (this feature already exists in WPF, so we see more convergence here). This is very useful when you have a list that contains objects of different types, and you want a different layout for each type.

 

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