Troubleshooting WPF / Silverlight XAML databinding ?

Question

Whenever I am doing XAML, I tend to run into problems with databinding. It is often small issues, such as misspelling a property name.

My problem is, that I don't seem to receive any errors or warnings when I am trying to bind to a property that does not exist. It would be nice to get a warning, either at compile or runtime, about my errors.

Is it possible to get a warning about wrong databinding expressions ? What do you do to troubleshoot when your data does not appear as expected ?

Answer 1

WPF will write warnings about problems in data binding to the Visual Studio "Output" window

Answer 2

This blog post, How can I debug WPF bindings? helped me learn why my Binding was failing.

I've accepted the other answer to this question because it is technically correct, but I wanted to include the link above in this question, for future reference.