contentcontrol

I'm currently trying to achieve the functionality of a tabcontrol with hidden tabs by using a ListView (as tabs) and a ContentControl with Binding the Content Property. I read a bit on that topic and if I got it right, it should work this way: <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="20.0*"/> <ColumnDefinition Width="80.0*"/> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ListBox Grid.Column="0"> <ListBoxItem Content="Appearance"/> </ListBox> <ContentControl Content="{Binding SettingsPage}" Grid.Column="1"/> </Grid> . . <ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml

I have this in XAML <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Button}"> <Image ...> </ControlTemplate> I want to achieve same in C# code. How can I achieve this? ControlTemplate ct = new ControlTemplate();.. Image img = new Image();.. Now how to assign this Image to Control template? Can we do this or Am I missing any concept here? Creating template in codebehind is not a good idea, in theory one would do this by defining the ControlTemplate.VisualTree which is a FrameworkElementFactory . ControlTemplate template = new ControlTemplate(typeof(Button)); var image = new FrameworkElementFactory(typeof

I'm not sure when I should use ContentPresenter instead of ContentControl (and vice-versa). At the moment, I'm using ContentControl pretty much all the time in my DataTemplate s. When would ContentPresenter be a better choice? and why? Nir ContentControl is a base class for controls that contain other elements and have a Content -property (for example, Button ). ContentPresenter is used inside control templates to display content. ContentControl , when used directly (it's supposed to be used as a base class), has a control template that uses ContentPresenter to display it's content. My rules