How to bind color into my XAML - wpf

Question

I have this view model:
public class MyData
{
public string Status;
public StatusMsg StatusMessage;
private Brush _statusBrushes;
public Brush StatusBrushes
{
get
{
switch (StatusMessage)
{
case StatusMsg.Cancel:
return Brushes.Red;
case StatusMsg.InProcess:
return Brushes.Blue;
case StatusMsg.Done:
return Brushes.Green;
default:
return Brushes.Green;
}
}
set { _statusBrushes = value; }
}
public enum StatusMsg
{
Cancel,
Done,
InProcess,
}
}
Now i have this GridViewColumn:
<GridViewColumn Width="180" Header="Status">
<GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock x:Name="Txt" Text="{Binding Status}" Foreground="Yellow" />
</DataTemplate>
</GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
</GridViewColumn>
So as you can see this GridViewColumn color is yellow and i want to change it according my StatusMsg (my enum) so my question is how to bind my color into my XAML ?

Answer 1

I would recommend creating an IValueConverter that is able to convert your enum value to the appropriate color and then your binding would look something like:
<GridViewColumn Width="180" Header="Status">
<GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock x:Name="Txt" Text="{Binding Status}"
Foreground="{Binding Path=StatusColor, Converter={StaticResource MyStatusColorConverter}" />
</DataTemplate>
</GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
</GridViewColumn>
You will of course also need to create the resource, here's a tutorial that a quick bing search turned up: http://wpftutorial.net/ValueConverters.html