More Silverlight exploration.

I want to create a user control that has the concept of children that I can add (this.Children.Add()). I see that Panel adds this concept, but that Control is missing it. At the same time, Control provides the InitializeFromXaml helper, which seems to be pretty integral to user controls. Panel and Control are completely disjoint (in terms of inheritance chain), so you cannot nicely merge these two.

What are folks expected to do in this situation? Good question. The team is aware of this, and working on a solution. In the meantime, you (and me) will will need to do some hacking to get the control children outcome.