How do I Access Buttons inside a UserControl from xaml?

Question

At work I have several pages, each with buttons in the same places, and with the same properties. Each page also has minor differences. To that end, we created a userControl

Answer 1

Another Option based on @Funk's answer is to make a content control instead of a button on the template, then bind the content control's content to your ButtonProperty in the code behind:

on the template:

in the template code behind:

public static readonly DependencyProperty myButtonProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("Button", typeof(Button), typeof(Template),
            new UIPropertyMetadata(new PropertyChangedCallback(ButtonChangedCallback)));

and then on the Main Window:

The nice thing about this is that Visual Studio is smart enough to show this code at design time, as well as having less code overall.

You can set things constant things (like location, font, and coloring) for your button either on the content control or in a default style, and then modify just the parts you need for you button.