Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition

Creating Control Templates

So far, you've learned a fair bit about the way templates work, but you haven't built a template of your own. In the following sections, you'll build a simple custom button and learn a few of the finer details about control templates in the process.

As you've already seen, the basic Button control uses the ButtonChrome class to draw its distinctive background and border. One of the reasons that the Button class uses Button-Chrome instead of the WPF drawing primitives is because a standard button's appearance depends on a few obvious characteristics (whether it's disabled, focused, or in the process of being clicked) and other subtler factors (such as the current Windows theme). Implementing this sort of logic with ...