Using a Control Template for all controls across the application
- by samar
Hi,
I have a control template in one of my pages and i am assigning this template to my textbox's Validation.ErrorTemplate property. The following code would give you a better view.
<ControlTemplate x:Key="ValidationErrorTemplate">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Right">
<AdornedElementPlaceholder/>
<Image Name="ValidizorImage" Stretch="None" Source="validizor.gif" ToolTip="{Binding [0].ErrorContent}" ToolTipService.InitialShowDelay="0" ToolTipService.ShowDuration="60000"/>
</StackPanel>
</ControlTemplate>
The above template sets the image at the end of the textbox which is having the error. This template is used as below.
<TextBox Grid.Column="5" Grid.Row="1" x:Name="txtemail" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Margin="0,1,20,1" Validation.ErrorTemplate="{StaticResource ValidationErrorTemplate}" />
My question here is
I want to move this control template outside of this page so that i can use it across the application.
I tried putting the exact same code of the control template in a user control say "ErrorUC" and using it as below
TextBox1.SetResourceReference
(System.Windows.Controls.Validation.ErrorTemplateProperty, new ErrorUC());
On running the above code i learnt that "AdornedElementPlaceholder" can be used only in templates and not in user controls. If i comment the same i am not getting the desired result.
Can anyone please help!
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Samar
