Inheriting from a UserControl in WPF

Question

I am fairly new to WPF and I am having a problem with inheriting from a user control.

I created a User Control and now I need to inherit from that control and add some more functionality.

Has anyone does this sort of thing before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Answer 1

Well .. you create your base control

public abstract class BaseUserControl : UserControl{...} 

then in the XAML file :

<Controls:BaseUserControl x:Class="Termo.Win.Controls.ChildControl" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:Controls="clr-namespace:Namespace.Of.Your.BaseControl"> 

And that should work.

EDIT: Hmm.. this example is useful when you have a base control without XAML and then inherit from it. The other way around(from a base control with Xaml) - I'm not sure how you can go about it.

EDIT2: Apparently from this post + comments i take that what you want might not be possible.