Silverlight Dynamically Creating Controls and Attaching Event Handlers

Dynamically creating controls in Silverlight is a breeze.
I am using Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate.
I am starting a Silverlight Application Project.














I am selecting Asp .Net Web Project as new Web Project Typer.
















As mentioned in the previous blog VS 2010 comes with excellent tool support for Silverlight.

I am adding a Stack Panel (stp1)to hold the dynamically created controls and a TextBlock to display the message based on the control selected.















Going to the load event of Main Page I am dynamically creating Buttons.


List<string> lstr = new List<string> { "Shalvin", "Praseed Pai" };

private void UserControl_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
Button btn;
foreach (string str in lstr)
{
btn = new Button();
btn.Content = str;
btn.Tag = str;
btn.Click += new RoutedEventHandler(btn_Click);
stp1.Children.Add(btn);
}
}

Notice I have only one event Handler for the whole set of controls.
I am going to have different functionlity for different buttons by identifying the tag property of Button.

private void btn_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
Button btn = sender as Button;
string txtTag = btn.Tag.ToString();
tblMessage.Text = txtTag;
}