Chapter 13. Templates and Custom Controls
In the previous chapter, you learned how to use styles and behaviors to reuse user-interface property settings and code. In this chapter, you'll explore two more powerful tools: templates and custom controls.
Templates allow you to change the visual "face" of any common control. In other words, if you can't get the custom appearance you want by tweaking properties alone (and often you can't), you can almost certainly get it by applying a new template. And although creating custom templates is more work than just setting control properties, it's still far simpler and more flexible than developing an entirely new custom control, which many other programming frameworks force you to do.
Despite the power of ...
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