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I have multiple TextBlocks which reference different elements in my application. My code works fine when used directly in the page. However, I want to create a ControlTemplate and a ContentControl to reduce the duplication of code. How can I pass a reference to an ElementName into the ControlTemplate from the ContentControl using TemplateBinding? The following code throws this error: "Cannot convert the value in attribute 'ElementName' to object of type 'System.String'. Object of type 'System.Windows.TemplateBindingExpression' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'. " In addition to the Tag attribute, I have tried ContentStringFormat which also did not work. What is the correct method to get this to work using templates? Thanks in advance for your help, --- Shawn Here is the code sample: <Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" > <Page.Resources> <ControlTemplate x:Key="MyTemplate" TargetType="{x:Type ContentControl}"> <TextBlock Margin="{Binding ElementName={TemplateBinding Tag}, Path=Margin}" Text="{TemplateBinding Content}" TextAlignment="{Binding ElementName={TemplateBinding Tag}, Path=TextAlignment}" Width="{Binding ElementName={TemplateBinding Tag}, Path=Width}" /> </ControlTemplate> </Page.Resources> <StackPanel> <TextBlock x:Name="AnotherElement" Margin="10" Text="Main TextBlock" TextAlignment="Center" Width="100" /> <TextBlock x:Name="AnotherElement2" Margin="20" Text="Second TextBlock" TextAlignment="Left" Width="250" /> <TextBlock Margin="{Binding ElementName=AnotherElement, Path=Margin}" Text="Here is my TextBlock!" TextAlignment="{Binding ElementName=AnotherElement, Path=TextAli

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