30.2. Working with Object (Logical) Resources
When you are building a WPF application, it is very common to define a blurb of XAML to use in multiple locations within a window, or perhaps across multiple windows or projects. For example, say you are using Expression Blend to build the perfect linear gradient brush, which consists of 10 lines of markup. Now, you want to use that brush as the background color for every Button control in the project...which consists of 8 windows...for a total of 16 Buttons.
The worst thing you could do is to copy and paste the XAML to each and every control. Clearly, this would be a nightmare to maintain, as you would need to make numerous changes anytime you wanted to tweak the look and feel of the brush.
Thankfully, ...
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