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Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:19 PM

Implicit Styles, Templates, Controls and FrameworkElements

Even though I've been working with WPF for over 3 years, I'm still learning some of its idiosyncrasies. A discussion came up recently about whether implicit styles are applied to elements in a template. It turns out that the answer is, it depends on whether
Posted by Carole Snyder | 0 Comments
Friday, February 27, 2009 11:57 PM

The VisualStateManager and Triggers

Silverlight introduced the Visual State Manager, which makes it easier for control template authors to specify the appearance of a control depending on its visual state. The WPF Toolkit ships a Visual State Manager, and the next version of WPF will include
Posted by Carole Snyder | 4 Comments
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:30 AM

Discuss! Is there confusion about styles versus templates?

Are you or have you been confused by what is a style and what is a template? Our documentation hasn’t always been as clear as it can be when discussing Styles and Templates and we’re wondering if we need to be better at distinguishing the two, or if people
Posted by Carole Snyder | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:22 AM

Using Themes with Custom Controls

Last month I explained how to use shared resources in a control library . This month I’ll create an example that uses different styles based on the current setting of the desktop theme. You can define a different look and feel based on the desktop theme
Posted by wcsdkteam | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): ThemedResources.zip
Monday, April 16, 2007 6:10 PM

How do I programmatically interact with template-generated elements? Part II

This post shows you how to find a named element within a DataTemplate. In Part I , we discussed how to find a named element within a ControlTemplate. That was fairly simple; you’d call Template.FindName on the control that the ControlTemplate has been
Posted by wcsdkteam | 23 Comments
Attachment(s): FindElementinDataTemplate_C#_VB.zip
Friday, March 16, 2007 4:18 PM

How do I programmatically interact with template-generated elements? Part I

You may have a scenario that requires you to find an element within a ControlTemplate. To do that, you use Template.FindName. Say you have a simple ControlTemplate for a Button, like the following: < Style TargetType = " {x:Type Button} " > <
Posted by wcsdkteam | 12 Comments
Friday, January 05, 2007 2:11 PM

"Styling" the content of a ContentControl

People have occasionally asked about using a Style to set the content of a control. For example, suppose you want all of your buttons in an application to have the same content. You can do something like this (As usual, this doesn’t make sense for a real
Posted by wcsdkteam | 0 Comments
Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:58 AM

Are You My Mother? A look into how property inheritance works with the logical and visual element trees.

I was recently working on an article for the SDK and noticed some unexpected behavior in one of my examples. After a long discussion with a developer on the team, I caught onto some concepts that weren’t readily obvious to me. I’m going to share my findings
Posted by wcsdkteam | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:11 PM

Styles and Templates - How's everything related?

People who are new to the platform often have these questions about styles and templates (and a related concept, resources): What is a Resource? In the simplest terms, a resource is a reusable object. For example, the following SolidColorBrush is declared
Posted by wcsdkteam | 2 Comments
 
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