Combobox - using simple properties

To follow on from my previous post about Comboboxes (see binding combo boxes to objects), how do you bind to a simple int representation of a foreign key?

Lets say you have a Person object, with a member called Employee which is an int and refers to the Id on an Employee object.

When you want to bind to an Person object with an int you set:

• SelectedValue - this points to the EmployeeId member (typically set to {Binding Path=EmployeeId})
• SelectedValuePath - point this to the member of the Employee object that will match up to your EmployeeId member, typically this will be set to {Binding path=Id}
• DisplayMemberPath - point this to the member of the Employee that displays something meaningful, like Name. This will then get displayed in the drop down.
• ItemsSource - point this to the ObservableCollection that holds the list of Employees

This is all you need to do