Template Binding with Attached Properties

Question

I have a standard style for my buttons but I want certain parts of the style to be configurable. e.g. I have a border appear when MouseOver is triggered for the button and I

Answer 1

I think TemplateBinding is evaluated at compile time so you can't dynamically set a TemplateBinding in your Setter, try using Binding instead (see below).

<Setter TargetName="border" Property="BorderBrush" 
        Value="{Binding Path=(local:ThemeProperties.ButtonBorderColour),
                        RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"/>

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Try this:

<Setter TargetName="border" Property="BorderBrush" Value="{TemplateBinding Path=(local:ThemeProperties.ButtonBorderColour)}" />

The difference being that parentheses around the property indicate that it is an attached property.