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, data binding is a general technique that binds data sources from the provider and consumer together and synchronizes them. This is usually done with two data/information sources with different languages, as in

XML data binding XML data binding refers to a means of representing information in an XML document as a business object in computer memory. This allows applications to access the data in the XML from the object rather than using the DOM or SAX to retrieve the data ...

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UI data binding UI data binding is a software design pattern to simplify development of GUI applications. UI data binding binds UI elements to an application domain model. Most frameworks employ the Observer pattern as the underlying binding mechanism. To work ...

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, data and information objects of the same language, but different logic function are bound together (e.g.,

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UI elements to Java objects). In a data binding process, each data change is reflected automatically by the elements that are bound to the data. The term data binding is also used in cases where an outer representation of data in an element changes, and the underlying data is automatically updated to reflect this change. As an example, a change in a TextBox element could modify the underlying data value.

Data binding frameworks and tools

List of examples of data binding frameworks and tools for different programming languages:

C# .NET

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Blazor Blazor is a free and open-source web framework that enables developers to create web apps using C# and HTML. It is being developed by Microsoft. Overview Five different editions of Blazor apps have been announced. Blazor Server: These apps ar ...

Windows Forms Windows Forms (WinForms) is a free and open-source graphical (GUI) class library included as a part of Microsoft .NET, .NET Framework or Mono Framework, providing a platform to write client applications for desktop, laptop, and tablet PCs. While ...

Delphi

* DSharp third-party data binding tool * OpenWire Visual Live Binding—third-party visual data binding tool * LiveBindings

Java

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* JavaFX * Eclipse

JavaScript

Objective-C

* AKABeacon iOS Data Binding framework

Swift

* SwiftUI

Scala

* Binding.scala