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Posted by Amit on Mar 5th, 2009 | Filed under .Net, C#, WPF | 3 Comments

Hi

 

Where do you locate your convertors? do you put them in the Window.Resources section? or in the UserControl they are being used for? Neither of these options is good. You should put it in the App.Xaml file and here is why:

Lets look at the following example:

Here is our Window:

   1: <Window x:Class="ConvertorLocation.Window1"
   2:     xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
   3:     xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
   4:         xmlns:my="clr-namespace:ConvertorLocation"
   5:     Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">
   6:     <Grid>
   7:         <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding}">
   8:             <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
   9:                 <DataTemplate>
  10:                     <my:UserControl1></my:UserControl1>
  11:                 </DataTemplate>
  12:             </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
  13:         </ItemsControl>
  14:     </Grid>    
  15: </Window>

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