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Handling events from within a ControlTemplate in WPF

Posted by richard in C#, Software Development, WPF on February 13th, 2010

Here’s an interesting one that had me stumped for a few hours.

Following on from my previous post, where I explained how to create a ControlTemplate to style a TextBox in WPF, I’ve got an object, TextEntryBox, which dervies from a TextBox (it provides some custom event handlers when text is entered, but to all intents and purposes, it’s a regular TextBox).

I wanted to style my TextEntryBox, this time including a button within my ControlTemplate (this will eventually toggle an on-screen keyboard pop-up, but that’s another blog post!). I came up with this:
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How to create a ControlTemplate for a WPF TextBox

Posted by richard in C#, Software Development, WPF on February 13th, 2010

This is a short post, but has one specific piece of information I want to keep.

Q: If you want to create a ControlTemplate to provide a custom style for a TextBox, how do you specify where the text goes when it’s used in WPF?

A: The answer was hidden in the depths of the MSDN Documentation. You have to include a <ScrollViewer> within your ControlTemplate with an x:Name value of “PART_ContentHost”.

Here’s a noddy example:

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