XAML Developer Reference

Chapter 5. Resources, Styles, and Triggers

In this chapter:

• Resources

• Types of Resources

• Defining ResourceDictionary Files

• Merged Resource Dictionaries

• Scope and Hierarchy of Resources

• Styles

• Triggers

• Troubleshooting Resources, Styles, and Triggers

• Summary

XAML provides some powerful features through resources, styles, and triggers that let you customize the visual appearance and behavior of controls. You can capitalize on these features to transform a dull, ordinary application into an application with a rich, interactive, and striking user interface.

Resources

Resources in Silverlight and WPF provide designers and developers with a way to reuse commonly defined objects. Using resources, you can set the properties of several controls simultaneously. This ...