Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

Type Converters

Let’s look at the C# code equivalent to the preceding Button declaration that sets both Content and Background properties:

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Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Button b = new Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Button(); b.Content = "Stop"; b.Background = new Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.SolidColorBrush (Windows.UI.Color .Red);

Wait a minute. How can "Red" in the previous XAML file be equivalent to the SolidColorBrush instance used in the C# code? Indeed, this example exposes a subtlety with using strings to set properties in XAML that are a different data type than System.String or System.Object. In such cases, the XAML parser must look for a type converter that knows how to convert the string representation to the desired ...