Assistance designing a WPF control template - wpf

Question

I am trying to design a template to be used with Bing Maps. I have started with the base template and torn a few bits out and added a few more bits, but I am making a bit of a mess of it!
What I am trying to acheive is a pushpin that has what appears to be a tooltip coming out of each side into which I can insert more information (though these are not actually tooltips; they are displayed permanantly based upon a binding property). Something like...
As you can see, I am not much of an artist and have not really gotten very far!
Can somebody help? What I would like is for the orange bars on each side of the pin to be able to contain text based upon a binding (and the bars should grow if required); whilst also being able to hide one or both bars depending on a binding (IsLeftTextVisible/IsRightTextVisible for example, the names do not matter I can change those later) or even if the bound field contains no text.
I would also really like for the orange bars to be a bit nicer; but if somebody can help me get to the point where I can display the text I (hopefully) should be able to take it from there.
Here is the code to produce what I have...
<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:m="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.WPF;assembly=Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.WPF">
<ControlTemplate x:Key="PushpinTemplate"
TargetType="{x:Type m:Pushpin}">
<Grid Grid.Name="LayoutRoot"
FrameworkElement.Height="{TemplateBinding FrameworkElement.Height}"
FrameworkElement.Width="{TemplateBinding FrameworkElement.Width}">
<Canvas FrameworkElement.Height="35"
FrameworkElement.HorizontalAlignment="Left"
FrameworkElement.VerticalAlignment="Top"
FrameworkElement.Width="34">
<Path x:Name="CollectionTextPath"
Fill="{TemplateBinding Background}"
Data="M 0,20 H100 V-20 H-0"
Canvas.Left="20"
Stretch="Fill"
Width="100"
Height="18.905"
Canvas.Top="3.19"
RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" >
<Path.RenderTransform>
<TransformGroup>
<ScaleTransform ScaleX="1"/>
<SkewTransform/>
<RotateTransform/>
<TranslateTransform/>
</TransformGroup>
</Path.RenderTransform>
</Path>
<Path x:Name="DeliveryTextPath"
Fill="{TemplateBinding Background}"
Data="M 0,20 H100 V-20 H-0"
Canvas.Left="-81"
Stretch="Fill"
Width="100"
Height="18.905"
Canvas.Top="4.19"
RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" >
<Path.RenderTransform>
<TransformGroup>
<ScaleTransform ScaleX="-1"/>
<SkewTransform/>
<RotateTransform/>
<TranslateTransform/>
</TransformGroup>
</Path.RenderTransform>
</Path>
<Path x:Name="Path_0"
Stretch="Fill"
StrokeLineJoin="Round"
Stroke="#FF333333"
Fill="#FFFFFFFF"
Data="F1M13.25,0.50001502C20.2917,0.50001502 26,6.2083602 26,13.25 26,17.817347 23.598524,21.823648 19.989363,24.075348 18.67861,25.105957 17.863953,27.531982 17.863953,27.531982L13.21736,39.595642 8.6221838,27.528591C8.6221838,27.528591 7.8198605,25.084908 6.6245556,24.145586 2.952121,21.907652 0.5,17.865215 0.5,13.25 0.5,6.2083602 6.2083402,0.50001502 13.25,0.50001502z"
UseLayoutRounding="False"
Height="39.694"
Width="26"
Canvas.Left="8.282"
Canvas.Top="0.001" />
<Ellipse Height="21"
Width="21"
Fill="{TemplateBinding Background}"
Canvas.Top="2.434"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Canvas.Left="10.806"
Stroke="{x:Null}" />
<Ellipse Height="18.905"
Width="18.905"
Canvas.Top="3.19"
Canvas.Left="11.911"
Stroke="{x:Null}">
<Ellipse.Fill>
<LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1"
StartPoint="0.5,0">
<GradientStop Color="#00FFFFFF"
Offset="0.438" />
<GradientStop Color="#6EFFFFFF"
Offset="0.987" />
</LinearGradientBrush>
</Ellipse.Fill>
</Ellipse>
<UIElement.RenderTransform>
<TransformGroup>
<TranslateTransform TranslateTransform.X="-4" />
</TransformGroup>
</UIElement.RenderTransform>
</Canvas>
<Grid FrameworkElement.HorizontalAlignment="Center"
FrameworkElement.VerticalAlignment="Top"
FrameworkElement.Margin="0,2,0,0"
FrameworkElement.Height="22"
FrameworkElement.Width="21">
<ContentPresenter ContentPresenter.Content="{TemplateBinding ContentControl.Content}"
FrameworkElement.HorizontalAlignment="Center"
FrameworkElement.VerticalAlignment="Center" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
<Style x:Key="{x:Type m:Pushpin}"
TargetType="{x:Type m:Pushpin}">
<Setter Property="Template"
Value="{StaticResource PushpinTemplate}" />
</Style>
</ResourceDictionary>
As you might gather, the canvas, grids and ellipses (the bits that look nice) are from the original template. I have then added the two Paths but I am now at a loss as to how to put text inside them (I could probably bind the text without problem if I had somewhere to put it).
I know this is a bit of an ask; but is there somebody who is a bit graphical and could move me forward a bit please. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I have extended the layout sufficiently.