Silverlight Dependency Property Code Generation

This blog details a technique for generating Silverlight dependency properties from an XML file via a T4 template. If you just want to grab the code, scroll to the bottom of this article and download the sourcecode or cut and paste the templates. If you want to find out how and why I created this template, please read on … Personally I find one of the most frustrating aspects of Silverlight and WPF development is working with the dependency property framework. They are beautiful in concept, but completely ugly in their implementation!