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I'm a little surprised that it is not possible to set up a binding for Canvas.Children through XAML. I've had to resort to a code-behind approach that looks something like this: private void UserControl_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { DesignerViewModel dvm = this.DataContext as DesignerViewModel; dvm.Document.Items.CollectionChanged += new System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler(Items_CollectionChanged); foreach (UIElement element in dvm.Document.Items) designerCanvas.Children.Add(element); } private void Items_CollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e) { ObservableCollection<UIElement> collection = sender as ObservableCollection<UIElement>; foreach (UIElement element in collection) if (!designerCanvas.Children.Contains(element)) designerCanvas.Children.Add(element); List<UIElement> removeList = new List<UIElement>(); foreach (UIElement element in designerCanvas.Children) if (!collection.Contains(element)) removeList.Add(element); foreach (UIElement element in removeList) designerCanvas.Children.Remove(element); } I'd much rather just set up a binding in XAML like this: <Canvas x:Name="designerCanvas" Children="{Binding Document.Items}" Width="{Binding Document.Width}" Height="{Binding Document.Height}"> </Canvas> Is there a way to accomplish this without resorting to a code-behind approach? I've done some googling on the subject, but haven't come up with much for this specific problem. I don't like my current approach because it mucks up my nice Model-View-ViewModel by making the View aware of it's ViewModel.

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