Thanks for the comment, all good points! In .Net any string can easily be parsed into a value of a different data type. However I believe I was trying to illustrate defining data types strictly in XAML (I was on a big XAML kick back then), although both my example and solution were overly simple and kind of useless really, as solutions such as your’s and Roland’s below are much smarter.

bool isRight = Boolean.Parse(sourceBtn.Tag);

Of course, if you are not sure that sourceBtn.Tag will always be either True or False, you should either do the parsing in a try/catch, or use Boolean.TryParse(…) like this:

bool isRight; Boolean.TryParse(sourceBtn.Tag, out isRight);

That should do

Thanks for the feedback!

I didn’t know anything about attached properties until you mentioned them, thus triggering some research on my part. I think they would work better!

When I get a chance I’ll write a follow up post to this one that illustrates the superior method you described.

Thanks,

Mel

You should perhaps make use of a stronlgy-type attached property.. For example, if your button is in a UserControl ‘ButtonGame”, define an attached property of this UserControl.. Once done, you could write something like “”.

This would be cleaner than this “tag” thing.

But the cleanest way would probably to have an associated datamodel, for example using the well-known MVVM design pattern.

Regards,

Roland Tomczak