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 adorners, such as rails.
- How to: Create a Design-time Adorner
Describes how to create a design-time adorner for a WPF custom control.
- How to: Implement a Rail Inside a Control
Describes how to create a design-time adorner for a WPF custom control that is a slider placed within the control.
- Walkthrough: Creating a Design-time Adorner
Walks you step-by-step through the procedures to create a design-time adorner for a WPF custom control.
- Walkthrough: Implementing a Rail Inside a Control
Walks you step-by-step through the procedures to create a rail adorner for a WPF custom control.
WPF Designer Extensibility Reference
- 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 Editors
Contains links to topics that describe how to create custom editors, such as color editors.
- 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.
Concepts