Question

I have a Usercontrol in a UserControl library (separate assembly). I have in my XAML markup like this:

<UserControl x:Class="CenterTextTemplate.CenterTextTemplate"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"  
Name="Test"
Height="Auto" 
Width="Auto">    
<Grid>
    <!--<TextBlock Name="TextField" Text="{Binding Text}"></TextBlock>      -->
    <Viewbox VerticalAlignment="Center" 
             HorizontalAlignment="Center">
        <TextBlock  Name="TextField" 
                    Text="{Binding Text, ElementName=Test}" 
                    Foreground="Red" FontSize="50">
        </TextBlock>
    </Viewbox>
</Grid>

In my .cs file i have a property:

public string Text { get { return "test"; } }

When I load the usercontrol I see no “test” text… is there something I’m missing? Tried to not give a Name to the usercontrol but that didnt work either…

EDIT:

In this setup I get this error:

Error 1 The type name ‘CenterTextTemplate’ does not exist in the type
‘CenterTextTemplate.CenterTextTemplate’ C:\Documents and
Settings\Brian Hvarregaard\My Documents\Visual Studio
2008\Projects\GreenWeb
Templates\CenterTextTemplate\CenterTextTemplate.xaml 4 37 CenterTextTemplate

Answer 1

You need to use a dependency property to bind to a property. See this link as well as the msdn page for DependencyProperty.