How to Bind to Values of an Enum

You cannot directly bind the values of an enum to a WPF list control, because the enum type does not provide a property that returns all values. The only way to get the names is to call the GetNames() method. But how to call a method from XAML?

The trick is to use an ObjectDataProvider, that allows us to specify the name of a method and their parameters and he invokes it from XAML. The result can be used by using a normal data binding

 
xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
 
<Window.Resources>
    <ObjectDataProvider x:Key="aligmnments" 
                        MethodName="GetNames" ObjectType="{x:Type sys:Enum}">
        <ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters>
            <x:Type TypeName="VerticalAlignment" />
        </ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters>
    </ObjectDataProvider>
</Window.Resources>
 
 

 
<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource aligmnments}}" />