I was working on a Silverlight control template last night and wondered which dependency properties are inherited and which aren’t. It’s a good idea to bind those that aren’t in the template so the dependency properties for UIElement, FrameworkElement, and Control work as expected for your control. However, I couldn’t find a list of inherited dependency properties in the documentation or elsewhere online. I discovered a somewhat reliable way to determine such a list: Look at the documentation for counterparts in WPF. The WPF documentation indicates whether a dependency property is inherited in the Dependency Property Information section. If it’s inherited in WPF, then it’s likely that it’s inherited in Silverlight too, since they try to keep things as compatible as possible.