XAML Unleashed

Summary

Using resources is about much more than just making an application or a control look (or sound, if you’re using audio resources) a little better. It’s a fundamental piece of enabling software to be localized into different languages. It also enables higher productivity for developing software because the logical resources support enables you to consolidate information that might otherwise be duplicated, and even factor XAML files into more manageable chunks. The most fun—and perhaps most important—application of logical resources is their use with objects such as styles and templates, covered in Chapter 18.