Usercontrol in ListBox doesn't receive values through binding

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Everything happens in Windows Phone 7.1 Dev environment.

In my MainPage.xaml I have the ListBox:

<ListBox x:Name="LottoListBox" ItemsSource="{Binding lottoResults}">
    <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
    	<DataTemplate>
    		<Grid>
    			<local:LottoResults Date="{Binding Date}" Results="{Binding Results}" />
    		</Grid>
    	</DataTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

As you can see, as ItemSource I set "lottoResults" collection.

public ObservableCollection<Lotto> lottoResults { get; set; }

"Lotto" class:

public DateTime Date
{
    get { return _date; }
    set
    {
    	_date = value;
    	NotifyPropertyChanged("Date");
    }
}
private DateTime _date;
    
public Structures.DoubleResult[] Results
{
    get { return _results; }
    set
    {
    	_results = value;
    	NotifyPropertyChanged("Results");
    }
}
private Structures.DoubleResult[] _results;
    
public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
    
private void NotifyPropertyChanged(string propertyName = "")
{
    if(PropertyChanged != null)
    {
    	PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
    }
}

DoubleResult structure contain two fields - int and bool, but it's not important right now because I didn't set any binding to "Results" field.

Let's look at my usercontrol "LottoResults":

public DateTime Date
{
    get { return (DateTime)GetValue(DateProperty); }
    set { SetValue(DateProperty, value); }
}
    
public static readonly DependencyProperty DateProperty =
    DependencyProperty.Register("Date", typeof(DateTime), typeof(LottoResults), new PropertyMetadata(new DateTime(), dateChanged));
    
public static void dateChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
    LottoResults control = d as LottoResults;
    MessageBox.Show("DateChanged!");
    // some magical, irrelevant voodoo stuff which only I can understand. ;-)
}

And now some XAML, where I bind "Date" field.

<TextBlock Grid.ColumnSpan="6" Foreground="Black" FontSize="34" FontWeight="Bold" Text="{Binding Date, StringFormat='{}{0:yyyy.MM.dd}'}" />

And surprise, surprise - binding doesn't work! Well, in usercontrol it does. In DependencyProperty as a default value I set "new DateTime()", this is 0001.01.01 and exactly that is being displayed in the TextBlock.

In my lottoResults collection (ListBox's ItemsSource) I have 3 items (none of them has date "0001.01.01"). And ListBox displays 3 items, but a displayed date is always 0001.01.01. Even more, the "dateChanged()" method is never being executed (I get no MessageBox nor it stops on a breakpoint), so I guess that "Date" field never receives new value from binding.

But what is interesting, if I copy the code of TextBlock from usercontrol to the MainPage.xaml (so now it takes values directly from "lottoResults" collection) the binding does work!

<ListBox x:Name="LottoListBox" ItemsSource="{Binding lottoResults}">
    <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
    	<DataTemplate>
    		<Grid>
    			<TextBlock Foreground="Black" FontSize="34" FontWeight="Bold" Text="{Binding Date, StringFormat='{}{0:yyyy.MM.dd}'}" />
    		</Grid>
    	</DataTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

So, why is that? I'm at the dead-end. I've spent 4 days trying to figure this out with no results.

This is how I set DataContext in MainPage.xaml:

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage 
    blablabla="Irrelevant stuff"
    DataContext="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}"
    Loaded="PageLoaded">

and in usercontrol:

<UserControl 
    blablabla="Irrelevant stuff"
    DataContext="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}">

And I'd like to emphasize one thing: 3 userscontrols are displayed, so ListBox knows, that there are 3 items in my collection. The problem is, that usercontrols don't receive new values through binding. I have another usercontrol, and I've tried to set binding to the same collection and results were the same: controls are displayed, but don't receive new values.

However built-in Silverlight controls works fine. I can bind "Date" to TextBox and it's displayed properly. I can delete item template for ListBox and set DisplayMemberPath="Date" and it's displayed correctly.

Looks like that this problem is only with usercontrols. But I can't figure out why and I'm asking for your help.

BTW. I can't see any binding exceptions in output window.