WPF UserControl with generic code-behind

Question

I have this code behind:

CustomUserControl.xaml.cs

namespace MyProject
{
    public partial class CustomUserControl : UserControl
    {
             


        

Answer 1

You can create generic "code-behind" file without XAML-file:

public class CustomUserControl: UserControl
{ }

and than derive from it providing specific class as a parameter:

public partial class SpecificUserControl : CustomUserControl
{
    public SpecificUserControl()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }
}

XAML:

Unfortunately, it seems that Visual Studio designer doesn't support such generics until Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/15110115/355438)