Design time custom property editors?

[Happy]

This isn't exactly a telerik question but thought I'd give it a shot. I'm trying to port my win framework to wpf using your controls.  As a part of my framework, I have custom controls and components with specialized business properties and in WinForms, I would use the UITypeEditor attribute to specify a custom design time interface. Thay way, within Visual Studio at design time, I could give the user my own custom dialog interface for manipulating properties, picking a business object, etc.

I don't see any way to do this with WPF. Is this not possible? In looking over your own controls, I don't see any custom interface anywhere. I would have expected something on the gridview but even there, it looks like it opens up the generic collection editor.

Is it possible to have a design time custom property dialog editor that the Visual Studio designer will automatically use?

[Nikolay]

Hi Happy,

Yes, this is possible.

I suggest you refer to the following articles for more details:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpfsldesigner/archive/2010/01/13/wpf-silverlight-design-time-code-sharing-part-ii.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpfsldesigner/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/expression/archive/2009/08/26/using-custom-value-editors-for-behaviors.aspx

All the best,

Nick
the Telerik team