Styling Components

[Serif]

Hi, 

Some of the telerik silverlight  components which contains content feature such as radexpander works strange if I try to apply a new style.

The scenario is that, I try to add a new button in a radexpander header template. In order to activate this button and new style I need to call InitializeComponent method in constructor. However, if I do this, I can listen button events that I added, and there is no compile time
error. Then at run time my button seems null. I guess there are two instances of the button. 

There may be a constructor problem, which type of the following should be used in this case;

public partial class  MyComponent : SomeRadComponent
{
      public MyComponent() : base()
      {
          //does not show new style
      }
}

OR

public partial class  MyComponent : SomeRadComponent
{
      public MyComponent() : base()
      {
            InitializeComponent();
            //cannot  read component at run time
      }
}
 OR
public partial class  MyComponent : SomeRadComponent
{
      public MyComponent()
      {
            InitializeComponent();
            //cannot  read component at run time
      }
}

What should I do when I m trying to extend a telerik component without loosing my components ?

Thanks,
Serif

[Tina Stancheva]

Hello Serif,

Can you please elaborate on your issues? I am afraid that from the code snippets you provided I cannot understand your scenario correctly.

In the meantime I created a sample project illustrating how to create a custom control deriving from the RadExpander control and how to define a custom style for it. I hope it will get you on the right track.

All the best,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team