WPF Designer Extensibility Reference
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This section has the extensibility reference API for the WPF Designer for Visual Studio to implement custom adorners, tools, property editors, and designers.
In This Section
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Provides basic foundation for any designer through a service and data backplane, and manipulation of metadata. |
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Provides extensibility by using custom feature providers and feature connectors. |
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Provides types for implementing context menu items and placing adorners. |
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Provides an attribute table for applying custom designer attributes to WPF controls and elements. |
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Provides an editing model for representing underlying user interface objects. |
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Provides a way to represent selections and groups of objects on the design surface. |
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Enables custom property editors to display in the Properties window. |
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Provides services from the designer. |
Reference
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Represents a table of metadata attributes for defining design-time appearance and behavior. |
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Provides a container for WPF controls, which are used at design time as adorners. |
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Contains contextual state about a designer. |
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Adds a class-specific contribution to a feature. |
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Defines a context menu item, which represents an action to take in the designer. |
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Offers a set of adorners that are shown for the primary selection. |
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Offers a set of MenuGroup items that are shown for the current selection. |
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Represents a tool that determines the mode of the designer. |
Related Sections
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