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Casey @ Microsoft

Normal Properties vs. Dependency Properties

Posted over 4 years ago

by caseydarwinstein
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In the Silverlight development world there are two kinds of properties that you can have on a Silverlight control: normal C# properties and dependency properties. The normal C# properties are added to a Silverlight control the same way as they would be...
Casey @ Microsoft

How do I get the height/width of a Silverlight UIElement if its not explicitly set?

Posted over 4 years ago

by caseydarwinstein
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The answer is, of course, to use the ActualHeight and ActualWidth properties. But wait, ActualHeight and ActualWidth return 0.0 , what gives? Well it turns out that if you just check the ActualHeight and ActualWidth right away, you are getting the...
Casey @ Microsoft

“The property ‘_UnknownContent’ does not exist…” What?

Posted over 4 years ago

by caseydarwinstein
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I was working on a custom Control the other day and that had its own XAML file. I had it all coded up, but when I went to build it, it gave me the following two errors: Error 6 The property '_UnknownContent' does...