title: Binding to the Current Item (WPF)
body: <p>I am attempting to bind a <code>ListView</code> control to a <code>DataTable</code>, but the WPF binding system seems to be complaining about the binding path I specify.</p>
  
  <p>As an example, a <code>GridViewColumn</code> is defined as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;GridViewColumn Header="ColumnTitle" 
   DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=/, 
                          Converter={StaticResource myConverter}}"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As far as I understand (and MSN seems to support me), specifying <code>Path=/</code> should make the binding on the current item of the data collection.</p>
  
  <p>The error I receive (in the trace window) is:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>System.Windows.Data Error: 39 : BindingExpression path error: ''
    property not found on 'current item of collection' ''OrdersRow'
    (HashCode=680171)'. BindingExpression:Path=/; DataItem='OrdersRow'
    (HashCode=680171); target element is 'TextBlock' (Name=''); target
    property is 'Text' (type 'String')</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This is giving me the impression that <code>/</code> isn't even a valid path, and WPF is expecting something after the slash. If so, how else would I bind to the current item? Why am I getting this error in the first place?</p>