Issues with Panorama TitleTemplate in Windows Phone 8 Apps

Recently I was playing with a prototype Windows Phone 8 app and wanted to set a custom title and subtitle for my Panorama control. The code looked like this:

XAML:

<phone:panorama name="Pano">
  <phone:Panorama.TitleTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>=
      <StackPanel Margin="14,50,0,0">
        <TextBlock Name="Number" Text="{Binding}" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}" Margin="0,0,0,0" >
        </TextBlock>
        <TextBlock Name="Title" Text="{Binding}" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextSubtleStyle}" Margin="0,0,0,0" />
      </StackPanel>
    </DataTemplate>
  </phone:Panorama.TitleTemplate>
</phone:Panorama>

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an easy way to set the binding for the Number and Title fields using the template.  I found an easy solution by nixing the TitleTemplate and just setting the title directly as follows:

New XAML:

<phone:Panorama Name="Pano">
  <phone:Panorama.Title>
      <StackPanel Margin="14,50,0,0">
        <TextBlock Name="Number" Text="{Binding}" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}" Margin="0,0,0,0" >
        </TextBlock>
        <TextBlock Name="Title" Text="{Binding}" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextSubtleStyle}" Margin="0,0,0,0" />
      </StackPanel>
  </phone:Panorama.Title>
</phone:Panorama>

Now I can set the binding in code behind as such:

            this.Number.Text = numberText;
            this.Title.Text = titleText;

Where numberText and titleText are public static strings defined in my code behind.  The resulting appearance is exactly the same as if I'd used the TitleTemplate.

I couldn't find any useful articles online so thought I'd share it here in case anyone else is spending a lot of time trying to figure this out!  Hope this helps you out!