title: databinding hidden (non visible) combo box in xaml
body: <p>I have a problem binding data to a combobox that's in a secondary (not initially focused) tab.  Basically, I have a silverlight form with multiple tabs, whenever I move this combobox to the first (main) tab, the data is loaded and everything works as expected, but when this combo box is in a secondary tab that doesn't have focus initially on first load, the combo box has no data, however, if I data bind the combo box using c# in the code behind it has data!  Any ideas on how to solve this?</p>
  
  <p>My binding in XAML (this doesn't work)</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;ComboBox x:Name="MyComboBox"  Height="24" Width="149"
            ItemsSource="{Binding Path=MyList}" DisplayMemberPath="Name"  /&gt;
  </code></pre>