WPF - Create a UI object from a DataTemplate
c#, data-binding, datatemplate, wpf
Solution
Turns out that I just needed to go up the UI tree a bit.
If I make a new ContentControl then it has no Look to it and takes on whatever the datatemplate is.
So my code changes from above to this:
ContentControl myControl = new ContentControl {Content = myMockWI};
Problem
This is very similar to this question I asked earlier. I am hoping to be clearer and get a different answser. I have a Data Object (called MockUI). It has a data template (in app.xaml) like this: ``` <DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:MockWI}"> <Button Content="{Binding Name}"/> </DataTemplate> ``` In my code I want create a UI object that what the data template is. So I have myMockWI and I want to find out what template that would use and get the object it creates (in this case a button with the content set to myMockWI). I have tried to just make a button: ``` Button myButton = new Button {Content = myMockWI} ``` but as you can probably guess, that creates the button then puts another button inside that button (because the data template is applied). How can I get one button only?