Comments by greatoceansoftware (Top 1 by date)

Thanks, Gerry. I thought about user controls, and that may be where I wind up. I built many of them in my VB/.NET/WinForms days. But the appeal of accomplishing the same UI effect with a well-placed DataContext and some Styles with DataTemplates seems worth a try.

What I think I have discovered, is that databinding really depends on a truly hierarchical data tree. That is, databinding can't effectively "join" two canonical data sources (independent collections of C# objects, i.e. "tables") on a "foreign key" (i.e. the ID <guid> in the problem statement above).

If that's the case for this particular application, then it really circles back to the user control and manual update coding that I've done in the past. Shame.