Custom Markup Extensions in Silverlight 5: Part 1

In this article we are going to learn about the Custom Markup Extensions in Silverlight 5 .

In this article we are going to learn about the Custom Markup Extensions in Silverlight 5 .

Created a new project SLCustomMarkup . Make sure that the Targeted Silverlight Version is Silverlight 5 .




Create a class say FirstCME



Lets start typing in the code . I implement the interface IMarkupExtension<T> here .














Lets have a look at how the Interface ImarkupExtension<T> looks:






Lets now add a TextBlock and bind the text of it to FirstCME Extension which we had created .



The Silverlight parser creates a instance of FirstCME and assigns the value of the property to the Text of the TextBlock .

Now we are done . Lets give it a run :