overriding datacontext for view

[oldSoftDev]

Hey guys,

I am setting my viewmodel as datacontext in my xaml but I override it to my view to make few functions work however to achieve the visibility on some grids and I have a property in my VM can I override my datacontext back to my VM? If so how? I have a stackpanel that has datacontext overriden as my grid and within that stackpanel I need to change the datacontext for a button.

Any help will be appreciated thanks

[pfaux12]

The problem is that you have switched data contexts so your xaml code doesn't know anything about your property in the viewmodel. You will have to do a RelativeSource binding, something like this:

{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type YourView}}, Path=yourProperty}