Chapter 6. The Power of Attached Properties

The concept of attached properties (AP) is one of the most innovative features of WPF and also one of the least utilized. This is because it usually takes several examinations of APs to really see their true benefit. At first glance, many developers may think that attached properties are nice and they let one configure controls using properties defined on a completely different control.

This is true, but it isn’t the entire picture. After making the initial discovery about attached properties, a lot of people stop there. A second run through APs might ...

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