Generic.xaml vs MyCustomControl.xaml RSS

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  Rjacobs

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  Re: Generic.xaml vs MyCustomControl.xaml

  Sep 30, 2009 12:47 PM | LINK

  I have several controls that I implement how you describe, and yes I didn't want to clutter up my generic.xaml either.  So I created a seperate xaml file for ecah control as a style and applied them in the control constructor, something like this:

  xaml:

      <Style x:Name="MyButtonStyle" TargetType="Button"
         xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
         xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
         xmlns:vsm="clr-namespace:System.Windows;assembly=System.Windows">
          <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White"/>
          <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="12" />
          <Setter Property="Padding" Value="3"/>
          <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="1"/>
          <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="White" />
          <Setter Property="Cursor" Value="Hand" />
          <Setter Property="Height" Value="30" />
          <Setter Property="Template">
              <Setter.Value>
                  <ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
       <BlahBlahBlah></BlahBlahBlah>
                  </ControlTemplate>
              </Setter.Value>
          </Setter>
      </Style>

  And in the constructor, read the xaml in and apply the style to the control:

               StreamResourceInfo sri = Application.GetResourceStream(new Uri("/YourNameSpace;component/YourButtonStyle.xaml", UriKind.Relative));
              StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(sri.Stream);
              this.Style = (Style)XamlReader.Load(sr.ReadToEnd());

  Regards,
  Rob Jacobs