Interceptions for value converters in Silverlight

Question

Some UserControl uses converters, which usually look like this:

<UserControl.Resources>
    <Converters:CurrentDataConverter x:Key="CurrentDataConverter"/>
</UserControl.Resources>

I would like to have a base user control for interception of converters, for example, to use Dependency Injection. Would it be possible? Thank you.

Answer 1

Converters (or any resource) can be declared at any level of the Xaml hierarchy so the best place to inject them is the global App resource collection (which is searched last for keys).

At any tine during startup you just add instances of the converters as name/value pairs, rather than declaring them in Xaml. That means you have full control over creation and can use an IOC container to create them.