Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework, Sixth Edition

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Dependency Properties, Routed Events, and Templates

This chapter concludes your investigation of the WPF programming model by introducing you to the process of building customized control templates. While it is true that the content model and style mechanism do allow you to add unique bits to a standard WPF control, the process of building custom templates allows you to fully define how a control should render its output, respond to state transitions, and integrate into the WPF APIs.

This chapter begins by examining two topics that are important when creating a custom control, specifically dependency properties and routed events. Once you understand these topics, you will then learn about the role of a default template and ...