How to Create and Use Custom Control in UWP

Umer Qureshi

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1 Dec 2015CPOL

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How to create a Custom Control so it can be used later and how to give access to some of it properties

Create a new project. Add a new item and then select user control.
Then go to MyUserControl1.xaml and add textblock and image from toolbox.
Now, we want to give the control to the user using our custom control so he/she can change text and image. For that, go to MyUserControl1.xaml.cs and add a dependency property of type as of the 'text' property of textblock, i.e., string. In this case, set metadata to 'null'.
Do the same for source of the image of the type 'ImageSource'.
Now, bind the respected properties with our dependency properties so they can be changed by the user.
Now, we can use our created custom control anywhere we like. And can change the text or image source to add any image.
Like this, we can give the desired control over our custom control to the user by binding them with our created dependency properties.