Defining and Using Shared Resources in a Custom Control Library

Using Themes with Custom Controls

Windows Presentation Foundation SDK — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:25:15 GMT

Last month I explained how to use shared resources in a control library . This month I’ll create an example

Managing Application Resources when WPF is Hosted

Ask Dr. WPF — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:46:11 GMT

Dear Dr. WPF, We are running into some issues around application level resources when we attempt to put WPF task pane UI within Office. The primary issue is that the runtime host is not WPF i ...

Defining and Using Shared Resources

jbe2277 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:43:46 GMT

The approach shown in this blog “Defining Resources at the Element Level” works fine at runtime. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work inside the Visual Studio WPF Designer (Cider). The Designer doesn’t load the code in the code-behind file and so the following code is never executed inside the Designer:

public NumericUpDown()

{

this.Resources.MergedDictionaries.Add(

SharedDictionaryManager.SharedDictionary);

InitializeComponent();

}

Alternative approaches that work with the designer are described here: http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeExtensions/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=42919