Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012

APPENDIX C

Using Properties in Custom Controls

When you’re writing a custom Silverlight control extension, you can bind the attributes of UI elements to the values that a developer enters in the Visual Studio screen designer (Figure C-1).

Figure C-1. Property values that developers can modify

Chapter 12 (Listing 12-7) highlights a piece of XAML that includes a custom control that consumes the values from the property sheet. An excerpt of this code is shown in Listing C-1.

Listing C-1.  Using Property Names

<StackPanel   Width="{Binding ...