Silverlight 4 Equivalent to WPF "x:static"

Unfortunately, you can't directly use the DynamicResource and Static keywords in a Silverlight's subset of XAML, but you can mimic their behavior. Here is the article on the topic:

• {x:Type} and {x:Static} in Silverlight

In general, there is no easy way to migrate a project from WPF to Silverlight. They have very much in common, but strictly speaking are a different technologies.

Another way to achieve binding to static properties - to bind in code. Below is an example.

Main application class:

public partial class App : Application{    public static MyViewModel MyViewModel { get; private set; }    // ...}

Main window markup:

<TextBlock Loaded="MyTextBlockLoaded" />

Main window back-code:

public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage{    // ...    private void MyTextBlockLoaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)    {        TextBlock textBlock = ((TextBlock)sender);        if (textBlock.Tag == null)        {            textBlock.Tag = true;            Binding bind = new Binding("MyInfo");            bind.Source = App.MyViewModel;            bind.Mode = BindingMode.OneWay;            textBlock.SetBinding(TextBlock.TextProperty, bind);        }    }}

Maybe the TextBlock.Tag approach of checking, was Binding already set or not, isn't the most elegant one, but it works.