Creating Custom Editors
You can create your own custom designer experiences for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Designer for Visual Studio. This section contains topics that describe how to create custom editors, such as color editors.
In This Section
How to: Create a Dialog Box Property Value Editor
Describes how to create a dialog property value editor that displays an open file dialog when a custom FileName property is clicked in the Properties window.How to: Create a Value Editor
Describes how to create a custom property editor for a custom control that appears in the Properties window.Walkthrough: Implementing a Color Editor
Walks you step-by-step through the procedures to create an editor for the Color property.Walkthrough: Implementing In-Place Editing
Walks you step-by-step through the procedures to implement in-place editing.Walkthrough: Implementing an Inline Value Editor
Walks you step-by-step through the procedures to create an inline value editor.Walkthrough: Creating a Category Editor
Describes how to create a custom category editor for a custom control that appears in the Properties window and encompasses the properties in the specified category.
Reference
WPF Designer Extensibility Reference
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Understanding WPF Designer Extensibility
Contains links to topics that explain the concepts behind different aspects of the extensibility framework.Basic Extensibility Concepts
Contains links to topics that describe how to perform basic extensibility tasks, such as creating custom menu actions.Creating Custom Adorners
Contains links to topics that describe how to create custom adorners, such as rails.Design Time versus Run Time Behavior
Contains links to topics that describe how to change the behavior of objects and properties at design time.Advanced Extensibility Concepts
Contains links to topics that describe how to perform advanced extensibility tasks, such as creating surrogate policies.