[WPF series-Advanced TemplateBinding vs RelativeSource TemplatedParent]

What's the difference between these 2 bindings:

<ControlTemplateTargetType="{x:type Button}">   <BorderBorderBrush="{TemplateBinding Property=background}">      <ContentPresenter/>   </Border></ControlTemplate>

and

<ControlTemplateTargetType="{x:type Button}">   <BorderBorderBrush="{Binding Relativesource={relativesource templatedparent}, Path=background}">      <ContentPresenter/>   </Border></ControlTemplate>

TemplateBinding -more limiting than using regular Binding

• More efficient than a Binding but it had less functionality
• Only works inside a ControlTemplate ' s visual tree
• Doesn ' t work with properties on Freezables
• Doesn ' t work within a ControlTemplate ' s Trigger
• Provides a shortcut in setting properties (not as verbose), e.g. {TemplateBinding TargetProperty}

Regular Binding -Does not having above limitations of TemplateBinding

• Respects Parent Properties
• Resets Target values to clear out any explicitly set values
• Example: <ellipse fill= "{Binding relativesource={relativesource templatedparent},path=background}"/>

One more thing-templatebindings don ' t allow value converting. They don ' t allow you to pass a Converter and don't automatically convert int to string for example (which are normal for a Binding).

Templetebinding is a shorthand for binding with templatedparent but it does not expose all the capabilities of the binding Class, for example you can ' t control Binding.mode from Templetebinding.

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[WPF series-Advanced TemplateBinding vs RelativeSource TemplatedParent]