WPF and Silverlight Designer Extensibility Samples

Resource Page Description
Full solutions that demonstrate how to implement custom designer experiences for Visual Studio's WPF and Silverlight designer.

Requirements: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 or higher.

The following list shows the features that are supported by both Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend.

• Adorners
• Context menus
• DesignModeValueProvider
• Default initializers
• All of the ModelItem features, such as selection and manipulation.
• Properties window extensibility (same as Blend 2)

WPF and Silverlight Design-time Code Sharing
This example covers writing design-time code that is shared between WPF and Silverlight. It demonstrates implementing the following features.

• Adorner
• Inline Value Editor
• Category Editor
• Menu Action
• Adding Icon to control
• Metadata
• Assigning category
• Assigning type converter
• Keeping your custom control out of Choose Items listing and not adding to Toolbox

Download C# | Download Visual Basic | WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I | WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part II

Silverlight Designer Sample
Example design-time implementations for the Silverlight TabControl and DataGrid controls.

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Autosize Adorner
A simple adorner that toggles the AutoSize property for a custom WPF control.

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Context Menu Provider
A simple context menu provider that changes the Background property of a custom control.

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Dialog Property Value Editor
A dialog-based value editor for the Properties window that enables setting a FileName property by using an OpenFileDialog.

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Category Property Value Editor
A category editor for the Properties window that enables setting related text properties on a custom control.

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Extended Property Value Editor
An extended editor for the Properties window that enables setting the Background property of a WPF control by selecting from a list of colors.

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Feature Connector
Implements a feature connector that displays pending and activated feature connectors and designer services.

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In-place Editing
A simple adorner that implements in-place editing on a custom WPF control.

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Opacity Slider Adorner
A rail adorner that uses a slider control to change the opacity of a custom WPF control.

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Primary Selection Policy
Implements a surrogate policy that provides container semantics for a selected item. By using this policy, the DemoDockPanel container control offers a docking context menu and a mouse dragging task on its children.

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Property Value Editor
A simple inline editor for the Properties window that sets the background property to one of three colors.

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Skew Adorner
A rail adorner that uses a slider control to change the SkewTransform of a custom WPF control.

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Windows Forms Vendor Control Example
Shows how to host a third-party Windows Forms control in a WPF window.
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