In WPF, custom controls should be look-less. That means, that business logic and UI are strongly separated. When you create a control, you can provide a default template for the control, but anyone who uses the control can override it without touching the business logic. ...
However, if these controls do not meet a specific need that you have, you can create a custom control by programming a class that inherits from one of the System.Windows.Controls classes of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Microsoft Silverlight. To include properties in your custom ...
Creating a custom control in winforms - Part 6: Testing! Creating a custom control in Winforms - Part 5 Default Values for interesting datatypes Creating Custom Controls in Winforms - Part 4 - Adding a property: DefaultValue attribute explained Andrew ha...
This document describes how to build custom controls in Xamarin.Mac. It shows how to build the custom control, track its state, draw its interface, respond to user input, and use the control in an application.
5 Creating a Custom Control with FXMLIn this tutorial, you create an application with a custom control that consists of a text field and a button, as shown in Figure 5-1. Before you start, ensure that the version of NetBeans IDE that you are using supports JavaFX 2.2. It is assumed ...
so re-use makes sense. The WPF and Silverlight frameworks provide custom controls and user controls as a mechanism for re-using blocks of UI elements. Custom controls are rather special, with the logic being de-coupled from the XAML in order to support templating. For most needs, the simpler...
Microsoft WPF team did not put much effort in creating a reliable validation system. In this article we are going to implement a user control which will validate a TextBox based on custom rules.Implementing a User Control:The first thing that you need to do is to add a user control t...
Summary: Larry Roof provides a step-by-step tutorial on building custom controls, what he calls mutant controls, within the .NET Compact Framework. Controls in this article include variations on the TextBox control, adding the Locked property, and creating an InputPanel property. (12 printed ...
The built-in desktop application controls that you’ve seen so far include labels, textboxes, auto-complete boxes, and data grids. If you can’t find a control that suits your needs, there’s no need to worry. With desktop applications, you can bind data items to custom Silverlight contr...
Create custom events that a page developer can bind to and handle. Use the client control in a page and bind to the control's events. The overview provides an example of a complete client control that creates a button with hover behavior. This overview focuses on client controls. There are...