Building your own XAML control
A custom control is a loosely coupled control defined in a class which derives from Control
. The UI of custom control is generally defined in a resource dictionary inside the resource file. We can create themes for custom control and reuse them in various projects very easily.
Button
, CheckBox
, TextBox
, and so on, even ListView
and GridView
, are nothing but custom controls. You can easily load them inside an XAML page.
It's not always possible to use only default control sets that come with the SDK. Sometimes, it is useful to create our own custom control, expose its required properties, and design the template from scratch as per our need.
A custom control generally inherits from the System.Windows.Controls.Control
class. You may derive from a different custom control also depending on your requirement.
Custom controls are compiled into a DLL assembly and can be reused in multiple places very easily. You have total control over its code, thus giving you more flexibility...