Hey Perry,
It's Friday, so I've got a nice little hack for you. :)
The only thing I haven't figured out on this is how to get access to the RadPanelBarItem Header property... but I guess if you are replacing the content of it you really don't need that.
| <telerikNavigation:RadPanelBar x:Name="RPB" |
| <telerikNavigation:RadPanelBarItem Header="I have a custom content item, look!" > |
| <telerikNavigation:RadPanelBarItem Header="Not sure how to access this"> |
| <telerikNavigation:RadPanelBarItem.Template> |
| <ControlTemplate> |
| <StackPanel> |
| <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> |
| <Button Content="Button" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="100" Margin="20 0 20 0" /> |
| <TextBlock Text="Text" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="100" Margin="20 0 20 0" /> |
| </StackPanel> |
| <basics:Calendar x:Name="DisplayCalenda"></basics:Calendar> |
| </StackPanel> |
| </ControlTemplate> |
| </telerikNavigation:RadPanelBarItem.Template> |
| </telerikNavigation:RadPanelBarItem> |
| </telerikNavigation:RadPanelBarItem> |
| <telerikNavigation:RadPanelBarItem Header="Sweet!" /> |
| </telerikNavigation:RadPanelBar> |
Basically, you're putting a RadPanelBarItem nested inside another (so you get that nice PanelBar effect), but then you simply replace the RadPanelBarItem.Template with a new ControlTemplate and you're set! I tested it with a StackPanel, but my guess is that a Grid or Canvas would work just as well.
One thing to be aware of, I can't for the life of me get more than one of these "hacked" RadPanelBarItems to display under a single heading, not that you'd really need that, but just an fyi. ;)