Custom property for user control

[krishnan s]

Hi, I need some helpyin developing the user control. I have developed a usercontrol for slider( which has a slider and a textbox for displaying the value ) , I need to add a user defined property orientation for my slider , based on which it should be rotated . Can anyone throw some light on how to define userdefined properties for the usercontrol. Thanks

[BillWoodruff]

Namaste, or Vanakkum, or Namaskaram (your choice), Sri Krishnan, I think you can get some clear responses if you make what you mean by "rotate" and "orientation" a little more clear. What exactly is it you want to do beyond what setting the Orientation and IsDirectionReverse properties of a WPF Slider at design time do now. If this is the very simple case of you just wanting to let your code at run-time set the Orientation property : well, write a public method in the UserControl you can call:

    public void setSliderOrientation(Orientation whichWay)
    {
        this.slider1.Orientation = whichWay;
    }

If this is the simple case of you wanting to expose the Slider Orientaton property inside a UserControl at Design Time : write a Public Property so that Property will show up in the Property Editor at Design Time :

    public Orientation sliderOrientation
    {
        set { slider1.Orientation = value;  }
        get { return slider1.Orientation; }
    }

If by "rotate" you mean literally rotating the user control itself, or rotating the slider inside the usercontrol : then : just go and take a look at how you can rotate anything in WPF. best, Bill

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