I'm trying to get my head around the whole MVVM thing and binding. I have a ViewModel class which has a property that is another class. I want to bind to a (string) property of that class to the text of a textblock.

I set the ViewModel as my data context for my window\page. And then do this:

<TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=myAddressClass, Path=StreetName}" />

But this does not work. The text is empty.

I can expose the StreetName directly as below and this works:

<TextBlock Text="{Binding  Path=StreetName}" />

So am I doing something wrong in the first example. It seems simple enough ... am I just confuse about what an elementname is or should be set to?

thanks