Creating control templates
In today's world, professionals want to use a wide array of controls such as Button, TextBox, Slider, and so on. In many cases, you don't want to reinvent the wheel but just use the basic control in a way that fits your design. How many times did you want to have a round button? Or a control that does the exact same action as a slider but looks completely different? To answer these kinds of issues the concept of templates was introduced. Templating, as the name implies, allows you to completely change the way a control looks without sacrificing its behavior. To template a control, you first need a control. Let's create a new Silverlight application project, name it Chapter3-Templates and leave all the default options. Once the project is ready, add a button to the page using the following code:
<Button Width="100" Height="100" Content="Round" Click="Button_Click"> </Button>
Switch over to the code behind file (MainPage.xaml.cs), and add the following...