Question

I have a Silverlight Parent Page which is like a master page.
the child page derives from the parent page.
This works fine.
But if i want to add additional controls on the child page it is not possible.
How can i achieve this functionality in Silverlight? Can anybody suggest some good workaround for this?

Answer 1

Try this: Look for a place in your XAML code when you want to insert the new controls, and in that place put a <ContentPresenter x:Name="ContentTag" />. In code create a property of type Object that sets the Content property of the newly added tag. Now you have a spot in your XAML to put stuff. At the end you might get something like this:

<my:SelectorPriorizador>
    <my:SelectorPriorizador.MyFirstContent>
        <Button Content="Copiar Priorizacion"
                        Height="23"
                        Click="btnCopiarPriorizacion_Click" />
    </my:SelectorPriorizador.MyFirstContent>
</my:SelectorPriorizador>

your code might look like:

public object MyFirstContent
{
    get { return ContentTag.Content; }
    set { ContentTag.Content = value; }
}

The beauty of this is that you can add as many ContentPresenters as needed.