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RE: Silverlight: Packing user controls in separate assemblies

andrew — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:43:16 GMT

It's possible to have controls inside a DLL and keep designer working. Just define xmlns under ResourceDictionary node. For more info see this blog post http://blog.andrew-veresov.com/post/Silverlight-20-usage-of-the-converters-from-external-assembly-in-appxaml.aspx

RE: Silverlight: Packing user controls in separate assemblies

andrew — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:42:32 GMT

It's possible to have controls inside a DLL and keep designer working. Just define xmlns under ResourceDictionary node. For more info see this blog post Usage of the converters from external assembly in app.xaml

RE: Silverlight: Packing user controls in separate assemblies

andrew — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:41:47 GMT

RE: Silverlight: Packing user controls in separate assemblies

Marc Wickens — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:18:52 GMT

So it's not possible to have controls inside a DLL and get designer support?

I have placed a bunch of controls into a "Silverlight Class Library". I can create them using c# code, but they don't show up in Blend or Visual Studio. However the Silverlight Toolkit manages to do this, so I am a bit confused.

If anyone has any advice please let me know! My email address is marc 'at' imarc.co.uk

RE: Silverlight: Packing user controls in separate assemblies

Joel Rumerman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:35:53 GMT

Pretty cool stuff!

As a follow up, it'd be nice to know how to handle resources using this method and what's the best practices for them. Is there a way to embed resources in the UserControl library? Should I embed them in the library or should the application supply them? What happens if the application didn't supply a resource the user control was expecting?

Lots 'o questions.

Thx, Joel

JRumerman at yahoo