How to wire up a click event for a custom usercontrol button? Should I use CustomControl?

Question

I wanted to create a button that had an image and a textblock as content. So I went about looking for an answer and found a post (Reusable Custom Content for Buttons) which told me to create a usercontrol. I did this and it works great. I can set the image source and text through dependency properties. However, I am stuck as there is no click event for my control. I did a little more digging and concluded that I probably need a CustomControl derived from Button. Is this correct? Or would it be better to wire up a click event to my UserControl? Here's my UserControl: ```

Accepted Answer

The easiest option would be to just make your UserControl expose a click event, and pass through your Button's click event.

In MyButton's xaml:

```
<Button Width="Auto" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Click="onButtonClick">
```

In MyButton's code:

```
public event RoutedEventHandler Click;

void onButtonClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (this.Click != null)
    {
        this.Click(this, e);
    }
}
```

You can then leave your "implementation" code as-is.

How to wire up a click event for a custom usercontrol button? Should I use CustomControl?

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