Oh happy day, I finally woke up and discovered that StringFormat was added to SP1.
Here's a quick rundown on Lester Lobo's WPF blog: WPF 3.5 SP1 feature: StringFormat
This solves a huge problem that i was having in my book where I wanted to format a date but didn't want to side track readers with how to write an IValueConverter or how to write partial classes (a topic that is not addressed until a later chapter). Phew!
