contentpresenter

I am developing LOB application, where I will need multiple dialog windows (and displaying everything in one window is not an option/makes no sense). I would like to have a user control for my window that would define some styling, etc., and would have several slots where content could be inserted - for example, a modal dialog window's template would have a slot for content, and for buttons (so that user can then provide a content and set of buttons with bound ICommands). I would like to have something like this (but this doesn't work): UserControl xaml: <UserControl x:Class=

Why does the following simplified code not sets the font-size of the TextBlock to 50? <Window.Resources> <ControlTemplate TargetType="ContentControl" x:Key="Test"> <ContentPresenter TextBlock.FontSize="50" /> </ControlTemplate> </Window.Resources> <Grid> <ContentControl Template="{StaticResource Test}"> <TextBlock>Test should be rendered big</TextBlock> </ContentControl> </Grid> If I change the value of the FontSize property, visual studio shows me the text in the size I want. After compiling or executing the app, the size of the textblock is always reset to its default size. I have also

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