Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Property Elements, Listing B-2 a Button with Content set as an attribute

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Figure B-1 Executing XAML

Property Elements

You’ve seen how attributes translate to properties. In addition to attributes, XAML has property elements, which are child elements where one or more other elements become assigned to a property. An example of a property element would be the Content property of a Button. A Button is a class in both WPF and Silverlight that a user can click to produce some action in your program. The Content property of the Button determines what the user sees. To describe the difference between a property attribute and a property element, I’ll show you an example of both with the Content property of the Button class. Listing B-2 shows a Button with its Content set as an attribute.

Listing B-2 A Button with Content set as an attribute

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">

<Button Content="Click Me" /> </Window>