At //build one of the surprising immediate things I heard about was folks wanting to build custom controls right away.  I knew that would happen, but not so quick on something so new (WinRT).  The XAML platform did not have good support for building custom controls in the Developer Preview but now that the Consumer Preview for Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 Beta are out, there is much better support.  There are two key things when thinking about custom controls: 1) building it and 2) making it consumable by developers (even if those developers are your own company).  I'll try to articulate the methods of both here.
Defining custom versus user control There is usually some debate in the XAML community about the definition of a custom control.  For the purposes of this discussion I define a custom control as a control that provides a generic.xaml, can be styled/templated and is usually encapsulated in its own assembly which ca ... Go to the complete details ...

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