How to assign customer object to the dependency property in xaml?

[Eric Vonjacson]

Hi All, I have one class that has a dependency property that like this:

public partial class BSTreeNode : UserControl
{

//....
public static readonly DependencyProperty ParentNodeProperty = DependencyProperty.Register(
"ParentNode", typeof(BSTreeNode), typeof(BSTreeNode),
new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(null, null), null);

    public BSTreeNode ParentNode
    {
        \[DebuggerStepThrough\]
        get
        {
            return (BSTreeNode)this.GetValue(BSTreeNode.ParentNodeProperty);
        }
        \[DebuggerStepThrough\]
        set
        {
            this.SetValue(BSTreeNode.ParentNodeProperty, value);
        }
    }

}

The type of property "ParentNode" is same as this class. In the xaml file, I defined and used them like this:

  <local:BSTreeNode NodeContent="A" Canvas.Left="100" Canvas.Top="20" x:Name="A"> 
  <local:BSTreeNode NodeContent="B" Canvas.Left="20" Canvas.Top="200" x:Name="B" **ParentNode="A"**\></local:BSTreeNode>

However, the application will throw out an exception. So how to set the dependency property in the xaml file like this? Is it possible? thanks, GuoYu Feng

[ABitSmart]

Try it this way,

ParentNode="{Binding ElementName=A}"