Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015, Second Edition

APPENDIX C

Using Properties in Custom Controls

When you create a custom Silverlight control extension, you can bind the attributes of user-interface (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 19 (Listing 19-7) included a custom control that binds to values from the property sheet. An excerpt of this code is shown in Listing C-1.

Listing C-1. Using property names

The data-binding syntax in this code includes the property ...