http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/02/05/tips-of-the-day-setting-properties-in-custom-controls-in-1-0.aspxGot a nice international email today that said in part... ...things get more interesting it is a common scenario to write custom controls....I need to specify the parameters in code behind. Can I create custom xaml tags which are connected to the codeenCommunityServer 2007 (Build: 20416.853)http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/02/05/tips-of-the-day-setting-properties-in-custom-controls-in-1-0.aspx#29836Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:13:20 GMTd0d632c8-a6f7-4f68-b0ce-26aaafd62132:29836Community Blogs<p>Adam Kinney demonstrates building a very cool bar chart in 1.0, and Jesse Liberty shows setting properties</p> <img src="http://blogs.silverlight.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=29836" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2008/02/05/tips-of-the-day-setting-properties-in-custom-controls-in-1-0.aspx#29829Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:20:58 GMTd0d632c8-a6f7-4f68-b0ce-26aaafd62132:29829heuertk<p>in the snippet i noticed &lt;myButton&gt; -- if the writer was curious to be able to create custom controls and leverage any custom properties in their control, then yes this is more for 2.0 when you can leverage the full framework to write user control libraries where you can extend whatever you'd like. &nbsp;but as jesse points out, today you can do this with abstracting shapes and behaviors to make up what you'd like to have. &nbsp;you can see this as well in one of the silverlight.net tutorials for 1.0 <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/08/19/implement-user-control-in-silverlight-user-controls.aspx">timheuer.com/.../implement-user-control-in-silverlight-user-controls.aspx</a></p> <img src="http://blogs.silverlight.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=29829" width="1" height="1">