Watermarked TextBox with an AttachedProperty
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Ever wanted to create a watermark effect for a TextBox in WPF? Most of the tutorials scattered around have either used static text or created a subclass of TextBox. I wanted to use an AttachedProperty instead, and though it took a while to try every possible combination of brackets and bindings I came up with the following to create an AttachedProperty which you can apply in any ResourceDictionary or wherever you keep your Styles.
