Routed Events in WPF
Routed events are events which navigate up or down the visual tree acording to their RoutingStrategy. The routing strategy can be bubbling, tunneling or direct. You can hook up event handlers on the element that raises the event or also on other elements above or below it by using the attached event syntax: Button.Click="Button_Click" . Routed events normally appear as pair. The first is a tunneling event called PreviewMouseDown and the second is the bubbling called MouseDown . They don't stop routing if they reach an event handler. To stop routing then we have to set e.Handled = true; . Routed events are very similar to dependency properties (though instead of the Property suffix, by convention, we use an Event suffix… though it is not required). Also need to register a RoutedEvent in the static constructor, followed by a standard .NET event wrapper. Same as for dependency properties, DO NOT put any logic in the event wrapper itself. Routi...

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