This article was written by Alan Mendelevich

Hi

Recently I’ve been working on a set of custom WPF controls.

There are numerous good books and articles about WPF in general and some basic information on custom control development but I have yet to find a good article (or book) with in-depth coverage of custom control development in general and design-time related issues in particular.

In the previous month I have written an article about how to design a WPF custom context menu. I really liked that article because the outcome was very nice. Here comes the but :), as it turns out my implementation had a big disadvantage, it lacked the ability to show sub menus (an important trait in my opinion). So it was back to the drawing board for me.

After studying the WPF MenuItem Class and its Original Microsoft Template using blend. I learned some new things

Hi all.
First of all Let me give credit to Shahar A. for showing me this.
As it turns out, my latest post about DataTemplates was not the most efficient way to do this.
I used a different Template for the root and a second one for the all the rest of the data.
What i learned is that [...]