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Can a user control perform binding when part of a ListView in WinUI?

I'm trying to use a UserControl-derived control (UpdateBlockControl) inside the DataTemplate of a ListView, like this:
<ListView x:Name="AppsListView">
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate x:DataType="model:AppBase">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<local:UpdateBlockControl ImageSource="{x:Bind ImageSource}" AppName="{x:Bind Name}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind Name}" Foreground="Orange" Margin="8,0,0,0" />
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind ImageSource}" Margin="8,0,0,0" Foreground="LimeGreen"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
UpdateBlockControl is derived from UserControl and I'm trying to bind its properties (ImageSource and AppName) to the model's (AppBase) properties.
You can see me trying to set up these bindings in the first item in the StackPanel. Just to see if the binding works at all, I also bind a couple of TextBlocks to these properties.
The XAML for UserBlockControl is essentially this:
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<TextBlock Text=":-)"/>
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind AppName}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind ImageSource}"/>
</StackPanel>
When I run the application I see the following:
So the UserControl properties aren't working correctly it would seem: I get the :-) for the first TextBlock but the second and third TextBlocks are empty. Their equivalents in the ListView do work however (see image, above).
Should I be able to use a user control insisde a DataTemplate like this? If so, why aren't the bindings working?

x:Bind is Mode=OneTime by default. So, once a DependencyProperty is initialized inside the UserControl, it won't be updated anymore.
You need to add Mode=OneWay to x:Bind in UpdateBlockControl.
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<TextBlock Text=":-)" />
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind AppName, Mode=OneWay}" />
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind ImageSource, Mode=OneWay}" />
</StackPanel>

Binding textblock text from resources wpf

<Grid.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="trackTemplateY">
<TextBlock x:Name="txbValueY" Text="{Binding ValueX}" Margin="5" FontSize="11" FontWeight="Medium"/>
</DataTemplate>
</Grid.Resources>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=txbValueY,Mode=OneWay,Path=Text}"
Background="Orange" Foreground="White"/>
I try this above code but i cant to bind the text, how can i bind inside resources textblock text to outside the resources, Thanks

I am guessing that you are trying to show Text present in TextBlock resource in your second non-resource TextBlock.
You don't need DataTemplate. As you will progress ahead in WPF journey, you will come to know about those.
Below code will show "Resource Text" in your second TextBlock.
<Grid.Resources>
<TextBlock x:Key="TbRes1" Text="Resource Text" x:Name="txbValueY" Margin="5" FontSize="11" FontWeight="Medium"/>
</Grid.Resources>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Source={StaticResource TbRes1},Mode=OneWay,Path=Text}"
Background="Orange" Foreground="White"/>

All sorts of problems here:
You're specifying Mode.TwoWay in your TextBlock Text binding, it should be Mode.OneWay.
You're binding to the Label's Text property. Label doesn't have a Text property, only Content. And it's not a dependency property so you can't bind to it. (That said, a fluke of the internal mechanics does cause it to appear to work under certain conditions).
A template is exactly that: a template. You can't bind to something that doesn't exist, so the binding is meaningless.
Maybe you could clarify exactly what it is you're trying to do so we can suggest an alternative way of achieving it? Specifically, show us exactly how you're instantiating that DataTemplate.
UPDATE:
You need the first textbox to be created in order for the second one to bind to it, simply declaring it inside a DataTemplate doesn't cause that to happen by itself, so the direct binding will fail. Binding UI elements together like this should generally be avoided though, why can't you simply give the second textbox the same binding as the first?
<Grid>
<Grid.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="trackTemplateY">
<TextBlock x:Name="txbValueY" Text="{Binding ValueX}" Margin="5" FontSize="11" FontWeight="Medium"/>
</DataTemplate>
</Grid.Resources>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ValueX}" Background="Orange" Foreground="White"/>
</Grid>
If for some reason this isn't possible then you can also create a binding proxy object (see this page for details):
<Grid>
<Grid.Resources>
<local:BindingProxy x:Key="proxy" Data="{Binding ValueX}" />
<DataTemplate x:Key="trackTemplateY">
<TextBlock x:Name="txbValueY" Text="{Binding ValueX}" Margin="5" FontSize="11" FontWeight="Medium"/>
</DataTemplate>
</Grid.Resources>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Source={StaticResource ResourceKey=proxy}, Path=Data}" Background="Orange" Foreground="White"/>
</Grid>
Again, there are ways to bind to the data template declaration if you really want to, but to do that I'd have to see details of how your data template is being created at runtime.

Windows 8 store app: How dynamically change Binding in ListViewItem

I have created a common control for listView and I want to change the content of each item in the listView. Something like DisplayMemberPath but I need to send two values ​​that are not the same for any one screen.
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Property1}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Setter2}"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
and on the next screen I want something like this
<TextBlock Text="{Binding SuperNewProperty}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Setter2xyz}"/>
How do I create a control which has variable binding like:
<TextBlock Text="{Binding {Binding MySpecificValue}"/>
This is obviously a stupid thing, but it best describes what I want to do.
For completion:
Ok i have some module Employes.xaml
where call, my control with some dependency properties as itemSource and prop1, prop2(I want to use both, like display member path).
ItemSource is IEnumerable from DB and contains 2 columns: employeName, employNumber, this will be displayed on the listView
<control:listViewMyControl itemSource ="{Binding employes}" prop1="employeName" prop2="employNumber" />
but when i have modul Cities.xaml
I need binding prop1, prop2 to another column name, cityName, cityRank or whatever
<control:listViewMyControl itemSource ="{Binding cities}" prop1="cityName" prop2="cityRank " />
The problem comes when I want to display two different types of listviewitems for listview
// my user control listViewMyControl
<ListView x:Name="listView1">
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding employeName}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding employeNumber}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding cityName}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding cityRank}"/>
// but i want only something like display member path for two labels, input modules may be more (employes, cities, cars, stations, .....) something like this
<TextBlock Text="{Binding {Binding MySpecificValue}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding {Binding MySpecificValue2}"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
Thanks in advance.

Show/hide content on the WP7 pushpin

I have a puspin ContentTemplate:
<my:Pushpin.ContentTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Text1}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Text2}"/>
</DataTemplate>
</my:Pushpin.ContentTemplate>
How could I show and hide it clickking on the pushpin (Could be a lot of pushpins on the map and I need to show the content of the clicked one)?

You are already binding text to your Pushpin. You can bind visibility to it as well. I am assuming here that each Pushpin is binding to a seperate object.
<my:Pushpin.ContentTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid Visibility="{Binding IsSelected, Converter={StaticResource BoolToVisibilityConverter}">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Text1}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Text2}"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</my:Pushpin.ContentTemplate>
If you don't know how to use converters, then you can search for them and find all kinds of answers that should be helpful. I'll include one here for convenience

WPF Listbox : How to bind data?

I have a listBox and add data to it like so:
for (int x = 0; x < Orchestrator.Instance.getTopicCount(); x++)
{
listTopics.Items.Add(Orchestrator.Instance.getTopic(x));
}
But I need to be able to do things like have text wrapping and divider lines, so I would like to do it the XAML.
Microsoft shows this:
<TextBlock Width="248" Height="24"
Text="{Binding ElementName=lbColor, Path=SelectedItem.Content,
Mode=OneWay}"
x:Name="tbSelectedColor"
Background="{Binding ElementName=lbColor, Path=SelectedItem.Content,
Mode=OneWay}"/>
But I don't really understand it. Here is my XAML:
<ListBox Height="261" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="352,38,0,0" Name="listContent" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="391" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalContentAlignment="Left" VerticalContentAlignment="Center" MaxWidth="391" ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled"/>
How am I able to achieve what I want? (Divider lines, text wrapping so I don't have to scroll horizontally, and data binding)

To specify the layout of each item, there are two different things you can change: the ItemContainerStyle, which provides the ControlTemplate used for each ListBoxItem, or the ItemTemplate, which provides the DataTemplate that is used to render each data item. The ItemTemplate is simpler to use if you're just getting started and haven't gotten the hang of ControlTemplates yet.
To get your text to wrap, there are two key things to do. Turn off the default horizontal scrolling of ListBox (which you got already), and set the TextWrapping property of your TextBlock to Wrap. To get to the TextBlock you need to define it in your ItemTemplate. Here's a simple example of the template declared inline, though you could also pull it out as a Resource. For the dividing line I used the simplest approach of a Border with only a bottom black line.
<ListBox x:Name="listContent" ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Border BorderThickness="0,0,0,1" BorderBrush="Black">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

It seems that you will have to ascend the rather steep learning curve for how to use databinding in WPF first. Thereafter you should learn about DataTemplates and ItemTemplates to get the dividers and so forth.
Try this to get you started
A book I can heartily recommend is WPF in Action from Manning.

You need to define the ItemTemplate of your ListBox.
In your resources, add this:
<DataTemplate x:Key="myItemTemplate" TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"/>
</DataTemplate>
Supposing that your getTopic method returns a string, otherwise use {Binding MyTopicProperty} where MyTopicProperty is a property in your Topic class. Customize the TextBlock as you need.
Then use your ListBox like this:
<ListBox ItemTemplate="{StaticResource myItemTemplate"/>

here is an example how to bind listbox with RSS feed with DataTemplate:
<UserControl.Resources>
<XmlDataProvider x:Key ="DataRSS" XPath="//item" Source="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/629/f/502199/index.rss">< /XmlDataProvider>
</UserControl.Resources>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Center">
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource DataRSS}}" Height="516" Margin="0,0,32,0" Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="#FF627DAE">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate >
<DataTemplate >
<Grid Width="400" Height="100" >
<Image Source="{Binding XPath=enclosure/#url}" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
<TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding XPath=title}" FontWeight="Bold" Grid.Column="2"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
</StackPanel>
</grid>