Silverlight: How to receive notification of a change in an inherited DependencyProperty

Question

I have a control which inherits from (you guessed it) Control. I want to receive a notification whenever the FontSize or Style properties are chang

Answer 1

You cannot externally listen to dependency property changed notifications.

You can access the Dependency Property Metadata with the following line of code:

PropertyMetadata metaData = Control.ActualHeightProperty.GetMetadata(typeof(Control));

However, the only public member that is exposed is "DefaultValue".

There are a multitude of ways to do this in WPF. But they are currently not supported by Silverlight 2 or 3.