Questions tagged [contentcontrol]

Represents a WPF control which can contain a single piece of content that can be of any type.

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What's the difference between ContentControl and ContentPresenter?

I'm not sure when I should use ContentPresenter instead of ContentControl (and vice-versa). At the moment, I'm using ContentControl pretty much all the time in my DataTemplates. When would ContentPresenter be a better choice? and why?
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Display a default DataTemplate in a ContentControl when its content is null or empty?

I would think this is possible, but the obvious way isn't working. Currently, I'm doing this: