PropertyPathHelper

Ever needed to get the value from a binding in code?   Well here you go.

public static class PropertyPathHelper
{
    private static readonly Dummy _dummy = new Dummy();

    public static object GetValue(object source, string propertyPath)
    {
        var binding = new Binding(propertyPath)
                          {
                              Mode = BindingMode.OneTime, 
                              Source = source
                          };
        BindingOperations.SetBinding(_dummy, Dummy.ValueProperty, binding);
        return _dummy.GetValue(Dummy.ValueProperty);
    }

    private class Dummy : DependencyObject
    {
        public static readonly DependencyProperty ValueProperty =
            DependencyProperty.Register("Value", 
                                        typeof (object), 
                                        typeof (Dummy), 
                                        new PropertyMetadata(null));
    }
}

Thanks to Thomas Levesque for his answer on Stack Overflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577802/wpf-getting-a-property-value-from-a-binding-path