Microsoft® Expression Blend™ Unleashed

Chapter 5. UIElement: Control Embedding

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• Managing Embedding

• Limitations with ContentControls

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If you have created user interfaces previously in Microsoft .NET, Adobe Flash, or any other visual tool, you probably have come across situations in which you have spent hours—if not days—trying to get controls to look, feel, and function the way the designers and architects of the application intended.

For developers it was not impossible to embed many controls within controls—and then within more controls—to create a single custom control. But what you almost always ended up with was a hard-to-maintain control, which bubbled events through multiple control managers. And in some cases, you ended up with the ...