I am using an opensource wpf TreeListView control. The control is a library project with a themes folder in it containing some xaml theme files. In my wpf project, I have got a reference to the control dll and I would like to know how to reference the dll themes in app.xaml. I tried doing something like this but it throws exception saying can't find the treelistview assembly
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/PresentationFramework.Aero;component/themes/Aero.NormalColor.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="/TreeListView;component/themes/Aero.NormalColor.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
At the moment I have to copy all the theme files in my wpf project locally to make it work like this.
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/PresentationFramework.Aero;component/themes/Aero.NormalColor.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="themes/aero.normalcolor.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
Is there a way to reference theme files directly in the TreeListView dll like referencing default themes.
Awaiting
Nabeel
I figure it out myself, I was using the wrong assembly file name.
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The main WPF project has resources defined in App.xaml.
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary
Source="pack://application:,,,/Views;component/Themes/Standard.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
Here Views is another project which contains all kinds of UserControls.
This works all right, except that in the UserControls xaml the styles of Standard.xaml are not recognized because in this project App.xaml is not loaded.
So, compile time warnings like Resource cannot be resolved are shown.
It can be fixed by adding
<UserControl.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary
Source="pack://application:,,,/Views;component/Themes/Standard.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</UserControl.Resources>
to all UserControl files, but I would like to add this only one time somewhere in this project that doesn't contain App.xaml.
I can also ignore the warnings of course.
Inheritance for UserControl is when I understand correctly only possibe in a .cs file, not with a .xaml file.
Any other suggestions?
I have to include themes to my wpf application and use them for look and feel of the windows(.xaml) and controls.
i tried to include the theme files like below code but it is throwing error.
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary Source="\Themes\BureauBlack.xaml"/>
How to assign source path of a theme file which is assign Build action as Resource
Try to use MergedDictionaries:
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="Generic_UI/BlueColors.xaml"/>
<ResourceDictionary Source="Generic_UI/KStyles.xaml"/>
<ResourceDictionary Source="Generic_UI/KButtons.xaml"/>
<ResourceDictionary Source="Generic_UI/KWindow.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
I just created a new project and got the MahApps.Metro from nuget. I added this to my App.xaml:
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MahApps.Metro;component/Styles/Controls.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MahApps.Metro;component/Styles/Fonts.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MahApps.Metro;component/Styles/Colors.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MahApps.Metro;component/Styles/Accents/Blue.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MahApps.Metro;component/Styles/Accents/BaseLight.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
But I get one error like this for each ResourceDictionary entry:
An error occurred while finding the resource dictionary "pack://application:,,,/MahApps.Metro;component/Styles/Fonts.xaml".
But the dictionaries are found because when I run the application the styles are being applied to the controls. It seems to be a design time only error.
Is there any way to hide them? I'm also having errors for each MahApps Style property that I have set in my XAMLs. Since it's a big application my Error List always has ~30 errors.
This is really annoying, because the styles are being applied when the applicatino run, so there's nothing wrong. When I have a real error it turns in a hell to find it in the middle of all of these other 'erros'
I have the same error if i don't have checked "Run project code in XAML Designer (if supported)". Maybe it is a problem.
I've got a bunch of styles in my app.xaml and they are all being used just fine in my pages within my SL5 app. I'd like to move these styles to multiple resource dictionaries to make it more manageable and consumable.
First I copied a style to a new resource dictionary in the /Styles/ButtonStyles.xaml page in my project... a snippet looks like this:
<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
<Style x:Key="RegistrationsRolloverImage" TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Template">...</Setter>
</Style>
<Style x:Key="FinancialLedgerRolloverImage" TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Template">...</Setter>
</Style>
</ResourceDictionary>
Next I added the following to my App.xaml:
<ResourceDictionary x:Key="MergedStyles">
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="Styles/ButtonStyles.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
It forced me to add a x:key to the ResourceDictionary tag as I kept getting a build error. Now it builds, but the buttons that use the style aren't getting the style. In fact I'm getting a JS error that it can't find a style with the name of the two styles in my resource dictionary. They work just fine if they are in the App.xaml, but not if they are in seperate resource dictionary. I reflected the generated DLL and can see the styles/buttonstyles.xaml in the DLL.
At a loss... and can't figure out what's wrong. Ideas?
Are they within the same project? Try something more like this in your app.xaml;
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/YourResDictionaryContaining.Proj.Name;component/Styles/ButtonStyles.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
I have to do this to have consolidation of resourcedict's stored in one project, and then add that to the app.xaml of each other project to make them available globally. Currently I run about 6 Resource Dicts acros 20 projects in the same solution this way and it works great.
In the full App.xaml sample you want use "local" resources.
But when you have "local" resources and you want to merge a resource directory the systax a little bit different.
Try it like this:
<Application ...>
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<vm:ViewModelLocator x:Key="Locator" d:IsDataSource="True" />
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="Styles/ButtonStyles.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<Style x:Key="BaseTextBlock" TargetType="TextBlock">
...
</Style>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
</Application>
In my app i need to merge the resource file from an external assembly. Is it possible to do so? If the answer is yes please guide me to resolve this issue .
Try this:
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/StyleResource.Styless;component/ButtonStyle.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>