Chapter 4. Creating User and Custom Controls
WPF provides developers with unparalleled options in customizing and modifying the visual appearance of controls.
In the first instance, you can simply assign custom values to the appearance properties of the built-in WPF controls. For example, you could set the Background property of a System.Windows.Controls.Button control to silver and the FontWeight property to bold.
If you wanted to reuse this Button control in different places within your application, you could define an application-wide System.Windows.Style to set these property values and then apply this Style to all Button objects automatically (see Chapter 6).
Alternatively, suppose you wanted every Button to display an image surrounded by a ...
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