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eddieangel15-Sep-17 10:28
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In this WPF can be a real pain. I wanted to create a textbox that had a browse button inside of it to match some other controls and it was quite the hassle. Basically, the flow is this:

1. Create your user control, hopefully it is based off of other controls so you can use the existing dependency properties
2. In your resources.xaml file, add a reference to the xmlns of your control
3. Add style in resources.xaml

For me, my control is called a BrowseTextBox. The style looks like this:

XML
<Style x:Key="{x:Type cont:BrowseTextBox}"
           TargetType="{x:Type cont:BrowseTextBox}"
           BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type TextBox}}">
        <Setter Property="BorderThickness"
                Value="1" />
        <Setter Property="Background"
                Value="#FFFFFF" />
        <Setter Property="Foreground"
                Value="#000000" />
        <Setter Property="Padding"
                Value="5,3" />
        <Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment"
                Value="Center" />
        <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment"
                Value="Stretch" />
        <Setter Property="FocusVisualStyle"
                Value="{x:Null}" />
        <Setter Property="SnapsToDevicePixels"
                Value="True" />
        <Setter Property="KeyboardNavigation.TabNavigation"
                Value="Once" />
        <Setter Property="KeyboardNavigation.ControlTabNavigation"
                Value="Cycle" />
        <Setter Property="IsTabStop"
                Value="False" />
        <Setter Property="Validation.ErrorTemplate">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate />
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type cont:BrowseTextBox}">
                    <Grid x:Name="LayoutGrid">
                        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                            <ColumnDefinition x:Name="TextColumn"
                                              Width="*" />
                            <ColumnDefinition x:Name="ButtonsColumn"
                                              Width="Auto" />
                        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                        <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
                            <VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
                                <VisualState x:Name="Normal" />
                                <VisualState x:Name="MouseOver">
                                    <Storyboard>
                                        <DoubleAnimation Duration="0"
                                                         To="1"
                                                         Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
                                                         Storyboard.TargetName="MouseOverVisual" />
                                    </Storyboard>
                                </VisualState>
                            </VisualStateGroup>
                            <VisualStateGroup x:Name="FocusStates">
                                <VisualState x:Name="Focused">
                                    <Storyboard>
                                        <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Visibility)"
                                                                       Storyboard.TargetName="Focus">
                                            <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0">
                                                <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value>
                                                    <Visibility>Visible</Visibility>
                                                </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame.Value>
                                            </DiscreteObjectKeyFrame>
                                        </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                                    </Storyboard>
                                </VisualState>
                                <VisualState x:Name="Unfocused" />
                            </VisualStateGroup>
                        </VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
                        <Border x:Name="Background"
                                BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}"
                                BorderThickness="1"
                                Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
                                Grid.ColumnSpan="2" />
                        <Border x:Name="MouseOverVisual"
                                BorderThickness="1"
                                BorderBrush="{StaticResource TextBoxFocus}"
                                Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
                                Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
                                Opacity="0" />
                        <Border x:Name="Focus"
                                BorderBrush="{StaticResource TextBoxFocus}"
                                BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}"
                                Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
                                IsHitTestVisible="False"
                                Visibility="Collapsed" />
                        <Border x:Name="ReadOnly"
                                BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}"
                                BorderThickness="1"
                                Background="#FF575859"
                                Grid.ColumnSpan="2">
                            <Border.Visibility>
                                <Binding Path="IsReadOnly"
                                         RelativeSource="{RelativeSource TemplatedParent}">
                                    <Binding.Converter>
                                        <telerik:BooleanToVisibilityConverter />
                                    </Binding.Converter>
                                </Binding>
                            </Border.Visibility>
                        </Border>
                        <ScrollViewer x:Name="PART_ContentHost"
                                      Grid.Column="0"
                                      BorderBrush="Transparent" />
                        <Border x:Name="PART_SearchIconBorder"
                                Grid.Column="1"
                                BorderThickness="0"
                                VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
                                HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
                            <telerik:RadButton x:Name="Search"
                                               Style="{StaticResource TextButton}"
                                               Content="..."
                                               ToolTip="Browse"
                                               VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
                                               Width="15" />
                        </Border>
                    </Grid>
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
    </Style>


Mine is using some Telerik styles as that is what I am using on the rest of my form. The control in the view looks like this:

XML
<cont:BrowseTextBox x:Name="CurrentObservation_FilePath"
                                                Grid.Row="7"
                                                Grid.Column="1"
                                                HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
                                                Margin="2,2,0,0"
                                                Browse="FileBrowser_OnClick" />


The user control is pretty much just the same thing you are talking about, an existing type of control (text box) with another control (button) inside of it.
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