Can anyone tell me why this crashes my app? There seems to be some endless recursion by I can't figure out why. I get this exception Logical tree depth exceeded while traversing the tree. This could indicate a cycle in the tree <ContentControl Content="{Binding}"> <ContentControl.ContentTemplate> <DataTemplate> <Button Content="{Binding MyString}"/> </DataTemplate> </ContentControl.ContentTemplate> </ContentControl> And this is all I have as Source public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); MyString = "Test"; this.DataContext = this; } public string MyString { get; set; }