Extending the functionality of RadControls with Attached Properties - by @Telerik
Every developer has found him or herself in the situation where a control is missing the one feature that would be perfect in a specific situation or they would love to have a slightly different behavior of an existing feature. This is where attached properties come in handy. Attached properties could be used to extend the functionality of a control with very little implementation on our side. In this blog post I will demonstrate how to implement some basic attached properties in specific scenarios to extend the functionality of a WPF / Silverlight control. The next examples will demonstrate how to extend the functionality of RadListBox and RadDocking controls but you could use this approach in every WPF or Silverlight control.
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Post Contributed by: Kunal Chowdhury
Kunal is the Site Admin and Contributor of Silverlight-Zone. He is a Software Engineer, Microsoft Silverlight MVP, Code Project Mentor and a Code Project MVP. He is also an active Author in SilverlightShow.net and a speaker in various community events. He works on Microsoft Platform and very passionate about Silverlight technology. He started his career in 2007 and achieved various awards during his professional life.
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