How to propagate silverlight usercontrol properties to parent?

You have already decalred a StaticResource, so you can use it in both views. Do this.

I am answering my own question. But before answering my question, just want to clarify somethings. I was trying to create a fully encapsulated UserControl with its own ViewModel.

And where ever the usercontrol is consumed, the consumer should know nothing about the usercontrol's internal viewmodel. Only communication option I want the consumer to have is by setting some properties and using binding mechanism. So the way I resolved my problem is, I created dependency property inside the UserControl and setting it whenever something changes in the usercontrol's viewmodel.

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