Exposing events from a User Control

In the previous recipe, we learned about User Control, how to create it, and how to expose a dependency property and utilize it. In this recipe, we will learn how to expose events from a User Control, as you will need it in most cases.

Getting ready

Let's open the same project, CH05.UserControlDemo, inside the Visual Studio to proceed with this recipe.

How to do it...

To demonstrate the usage of the event, we will add two buttons inside our ColorMixer User Control and expose the OK and Cancel button events from it. To implement the same, perform the following steps:

1. Open the ColorMixer.xaml file and add the following StackPanel inside the Grid, which will place it at row index 1 and column index 0. The panel consists of two buttons with labels OK and Cancel:

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" 
            Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" 
            Grid.ColumnSpan="2" 
            Margin="4 10 4 4" 
            HorizontalAlignment="Right"> 
    <Button...