Binding Listbox ItemsSource to property of ViewModel in DataContext in WPF

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Published on 2010-06-09T20:00:32Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 20:02 UTC
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I have a simple ViewModel like:

public class MainViewModel {
    public MainViewModel() {
        // Fill collection from DB here...
    }

    public ObservableCollection<Projects> ProjectList { get; set; }
}

I set the window's DataContext to a new instance of that ViewModel in the constructor:

public MainWindow() {
    this.DataContext = new MainViewModel();
}

Then in the Xaml I am attempting to bind the ItemsSource of a ListBox to that ProjectList property.

Binding just ItemsSource like so doesn't work:

<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding ProjectList}" ItemTemplate="..." />

But if I first rebase the DataContext this works:

<ListBox DataContext="{Binding ProjectList}" ItemsSource="{Binding}" ItemTemplate="..." />

Shouldn't the first method work properly? What am I doing wrong?

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