Rewriting WPF GridViewColumn alignment in a less verbose way

Question

I wanted just to right align one column in WPF and I found out that the syntax is not exactly syntetic... Is there a way to make it more syntetic?

Consider that this one colum, but I have 20 columns which share the same identical structure, changing only the displayed property.

<GridViewColumn Header="trial" Width="110">
 <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
 <DataTemplate>
  <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Right">
   <TextBlock.Text>
    <MultiBinding StringFormat="{}{0:N} {1}">
      <Binding Path="Income"></Binding>
      <Binding ElementName="UserControl" Path="DataContext.Pinco"></Binding>
    </MultiBinding>
   </TextBlock.Text>
  </TextBlock>
 </DataTemplate>
 </GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
</GridViewColumn>

Answer 1

XAML is XAML - I'm not sure what the meaning of "syntetic" is in this context, but the only thing I can see that could improve, is the closing tags for <Binding> - the empty elements can be collapsed:

<MultiBinding StringFormat="{}{0:N} {1}">
  <Binding Path="Income" />
  <Binding ElementName="UserControl" Path="DataContext.Pinco" />
</MultiBinding>

There aren't 20 different ways of specifying the horizontal alignment of a TextBlock:

<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Right">

I don't see anything wrong with this.

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Actually the indentation could use more spaces, too - but that's cosmetic (and probably just a copy/paste glitch with the tabs):

<GridViewColumn Header="trial" Width="110">
    <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>

            <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Right">
                <TextBlock.Text>
                    <MultiBinding StringFormat="{}{0:N} {1}">
                        <Binding Path="Income" />
                        <Binding ElementName="UserControl" Path="DataContext.Pinco" />
                    </MultiBinding>
                </TextBlock.Text>
            </TextBlock>

        </DataTemplate>
    </GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
</GridViewColumn>

I like using vertical whitespace to separate things - it makes the markup easier to read, and maintain.

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EDIT: Considering that there would be 20x such markup, with the only thing changing being the <Binding Path="Income" /> part, as @GeorgeHowarth commented you can look into making the DataTemplate a StaticResource, like this.