Good choice. Adam Nathan's book is a good one to get as well. There's also a decent WPF book by Chris Sells that you might ultimately want to take a look at. "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys

You could use attached dependency property to implement this kind of behavior...Josh Smith has a good article on attached behaviors in WPF.

One thing you need to do is implement INotifyPropertyChanged, and have the change notification raised when the property changes. Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before. My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys

Give this a look. It will point you in the right direction. You'll need to ensure that the property is a dependency property and that you use the CallBack available to notify you when the proeprty gets changed. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.designerproperties.isindesignmode.aspx[^] Any reason you need this? Cheers, Karl » CodeProject 2008 MVP My Blog | Mole's Home Page | XAML Power Toys Home Page Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.

thn how microsoft manages to embed some control property into the xaml by default. Like the name proprty of a control derived from Usercontrol. or can tell me if there is any work around modified on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:50 AM

Well it worked for me the msdev thing provided that your operating sytem was Win-XP. Regards, FarPointer Blog:http://farpointer.blogspot.com/

Naveen R wrote: only size the header ctrl Sorry to be sound rude.I believe that is not the question? "Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow cheers, Alok Gupta VC Forum Q&A :- I/ IV

An option is to handle the SC_RESTORE message in PreTranslateMessage(...). Once you handle it make sure you don't call Base class handler. Return TRUE. This way you can disable the behavior of SC_RESTORE but the button remains there. Another option is to use Brute Force (Remove the System Menu itself) :evilgrin: Nibu thomas Software Developer Faqs by Michael dunn

Hi vinivc, This link is not draw Tabs for ListCtrl but I think that maybe it is some helpful to you http://www.codeproject.com/listctrl/xlistctrl.asp[^]