First things first. I'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Here's hoping that 2008 brings with it happiness, excitement, joy, and wonder! Recently I came across a blog post that discussed the use of Custom Type Descriptors to dynamically add properties to an object. We currently use this technique in our application, however there is a lot of hocus pocus going on behind the scenes that makes working with that particular piece of code precarious. I was curious if it would be possible to dynamically declare dependency properties and bind to them using the WPF Binding system. The short answer is yes. The long answer is HELL YES! Believe me using dependency properties to dynamically add properties to your objects is orders of magnitude easier than using custom type descriptors. Something tells me that DPs are just an abstraction of custom type descriptors. Does that make me lazy? Probably. Then again, the less code I have to write to accomplish a task, the less likely I am to introduce Read More...