How to do it...

Now perform the following steps to add the search functionality attached to the grid records:

1. Once the project has been created, add a new Employee model class inside the project and expose some properties, like we shared earlier in the Sorting data in a DataGrid control recipe.
2. Create the same dependency property (Employees, of type ObservableCollection<Employee>) in the MainWindow.xaml.cs file and populate the collection with some data records.
3. Now open the MainWindow.xaml file and add the attribute x:Name="window" to give the Window a name, so that we can perform element-to-element data binding.
4. Replace the default Grid panel with a StackPanel.
5. Now insert the following horizontal StackPanel, containing one TextBlock and one TextBox, inside the root StackPanel:

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" 
            HorizontalAlignment="Right" 
            Margin="4 8"> 
    <TextBlock Text="Filter records: &quot...