Setting a custom property within a WPF/Silverlight page

Question

This sounds like it should be simple. I have a Page declared in XAML in the normal way (i.e. with "Add new item...") and it has a custom property. I\'

Answer 1

You could declare your element to be a element instead:

That would do the trick, but you lose InitializeComponent() and the standard designer stuff. Design mode still seems to work flawlessly, though, but I haven't extensively tested this.

UPDATE: This compiles and runs, but does not actually set MyProperty. You also lose the ability to bind event handlers in XAML (although there may be a way to restore that which I am unaware of).

UPDATE 2: Working sample from @Fredrik Mörk which sets the property, but does not support binding event handlers in XAML:

Code-behind:

namespace WpfApplication1
{
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        protected override void OnActivated(EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Title = MyProperty;
        }      

        public string MyProperty { get; set; }
    }
}

XAML: