title: Add text to bound values in Xamarin.forms
body: <p>My modelView:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public string Status {
      get { return _status; }
      set {
          if (value == _status) {
              return;
          }
          _status = value;
          OnPropertyChanged ("Status");
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My View:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Label labelStatus = new Label { 
      TextColor = Color.Green,
      FontSize = 20d
      };
      labelStatus.SetBinding (Label.TextProperty, "Status");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then I want to present the status using something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>string presentStatus = string.Format("Your status is {0}...", labelStatus);
  Label yourStatus = new Label{Text=presentStatus}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that doesn't really work. Nor does using</p>
  
  <pre><code>string presentStatus = string.Format("Your status is {0}...", SetBinding(Label.TextProperty,"Status"));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So how should I do to add my bound values with more text before presenting them for the user in a view.</p>
  
  <p>If using XAML (which i don't), it seems possible according to: <a href="http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/xaml-for-xamarin-forms/data_binding_basics/" rel="nofollow">http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/xaml-for-xamarin-forms/data_binding_basics/</a></p>