WPF Binding ADO.Net Entity Framework to a ComboBox

I am working on a small system for a summer camp in WPF. I have a database that is linked via ADO.Net Entity Framework. It contains two tables; Campers & Bunks. The structure is as follows:

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• CustomerID, INT (Key)
• Name, NVARCHAR
• BunkID, INT

Bunks

• BunkID, INT (Key)
• Name, NVARCHAR

There is a foreign key relationship to for the link between Campers.BunkID & Bunks.BunkID

I made a WPF Window that consists of a ListBox of all the customers and a UserControl that displays the details of the customer selected in the ListBox . The UserControl consists of a TextBlock for the CamperID , TextBox for the Name of the camper and ComboBox for the Bunk of the camper.

Now the hard part... I have two questions:

1. What is the best method to bind the list of all the Campers to the ListBox ? What is the best way to bind the list of all the Bunks to the ComboBox in the UserControl ?
2. I cannot figure out how to bind the ComboBox correctly such that it displays the Bunk for each Camper and can be updated by changing the value.

Currently I am doing both in the code behind in C# but with the strength of WPF, I can't imagine that a simpler and better solution does not exist...

Thanks in advance!

Mike

You should do 3 things:

1. Set the ListBox's ItemSource property to the Campers object (I assume this is an IEnumerable of some kind..)
2. Set the DisplayMemeberPath property to the actual property you want to display on the ListBox (for instance - "CustomerFirstName"). If you want it to be a bit more complex you can create your own DataTemplate and present whatever you want (more than one property, images, etc)
3. Bind the UserControl to the ListBox's selected item: