Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight

Chapter 11. Styles, Control Templates, and Custom UserControls

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• Understanding ControlTemplates

• Creating a Button ControlTemplate

• Creating Styles and using them to override default Silverlight styles

• Using Styles to mandate how controls display their content

• Using ResourceDictionaries

• Applying Resources to Silverlight controls

• Using Styles and ControlTemplates to create your own custom Silverlight UserControls

• Creating and using custom UserControls

• Using DependencyProperties and custom DependencyProperties

A very important concept in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is that you should be able to create something once and use it over and over again. This generally ...