Monthly Archives: April 2010
Custom Attached Properties in Silverlight
An attached property is a type of global property that is settable on any nested object. In Silverlight (and WPF), attached properties are usually defined as a specialized case of Dependency Properties, and like all dependency properties they are managed … Continue reading
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Resolution of Dependency Properties
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, dependency properties depend on any number of services (called property providers) for their values. The Silverlight runtime needs to follow strict rules of precedence to determine the value of a dependency property. … Continue reading
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Dependency Properties in Silverlight
Very simply, a property of an element that depends on a number of property-providers outside the element is called a "dependency property". Each of these providers has its own level of precedence. These properties can be either set directly by … Continue reading
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