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Resources in XAML

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Published: 12 Oct 2006

Abstract
XAML, in conjunction with Windows Presentation Foundation, comes with resources as a helpful concept for designers to have a constant look and feel for their elements, windows, pages or applications and spread this look across their user interfaces. This helps to keep consistency in UI. In this article Keyvan introduces the concept of resources in XAML.

by Keyvan Nayyeri
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Introduction

One of the main reasons to introduce CSS in conjunction with XHTML is the ability to reduce the size of the user interface code and share the same layout across several pages and elements. This could allow for consistency between pages. XAML, which is a markup language to declare user interfaces in .NET 3.0 and Windows Vista, comes with the concept of resources to produce the same functionality.

By having resources in hand, we can declare a look and use it several times across a page or application.

Resource management is actually a part of the Windows Presentation Foundation, but I will discuss it as a part of my XAML tutorials because they are correlated together.

In this article I introduce resources in XAML and how to use them to declare a constant look across controls, windows, pages or whole application.

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Title: FeedBack
Name: HariPrasad
Date: 2010-09-27 5:47:49 AM
Comment:
Thank u a lot Keyvan,ur artical is really pretty much easy to understand what r resourses ,styles and triggers.once again thank u vary much for giving guidence.

Title: Really Nice
Name: Vinay KUmar
Date: 2008-08-07 12:48:50 AM
Comment:
Iam new to XAml...and this article has given a complete overview . I really thank u for this article...

I hope u will come with more examples.............

Title: Explanation
Name: Siva
Date: 2007-02-15 5:01:05 AM
Comment:
Hi Keyvan
Sorry if I was not clear. First I would like to thank you for devoting few moments answering my queries.

I think it will be better if I could mail you my project which is a Visual Studio 2005 Project. Can you please send a test mail to sivasenthil@xerago.com

Title: Explanation
Name: Keyvan Nayyeri
Date: 2007-02-14 9:35:28 AM
Comment:
I couldn't understand what you mean. Would you please explain things more?

Why you don't try RTM version?

Title: Code doesnt works
Name: Siva
Date: 2007-02-14 4:05:15 AM
Comment:
Hi Keyvan Nayyeri
I noticed that in Visual Studio 2005 add-in (oen of CTPs) and .NET 3.0 RC, I am having the "IsMouseOver" Property of the Button control disabled and set to false. Is that the cause of problem?
Can you help me enable that and set it to true and then test your code?

Title: I haven't tested that ...
Name: Keyvan Nayyeri
Date: 2007-02-14 3:28:08 AM
Comment:
Siva,

I haven't tested with Blend. I just tested this code with Visual Studio 2005 add-in (oen of CTPs) and .NET 3.0 RC (if I can remember correctly).

There may be some changes from RC and CTP to new versions and also there may be something different in Blend.

Title: Code doesnt works
Name: Siva
Date: 2007-02-14 2:40:22 AM
Comment:
Hi Keyvan Nayyeri
Your listig 9 doesnt work when executed from Microsoft Blend Beta. However, I noticed that when I replace the Setter property from Control.Background to Control.Foreground it works.
I am new to XAML, can you please help me on this.

Title: about this article
Name: valay kothari
Date: 2007-01-31 7:17:11 AM
Comment:
this is very superb

Title: I didn't see any blue color
Name: Keyvan Nayyeri
Date: 2006-12-19 1:37:07 PM
Comment:
But I didn't get any blue color at the time of writing. When you get it and what's your Windows version and style?

It shouldn't change from red to any other color unless you move mouse out of button area. Then it will get the default background color.

Title: Trouble with changing background on mouse over
Name: Rod Stephens
Date: 2006-12-19 1:24:39 PM
Comment:
Great material! However the button seems to have its own ideas about how to make the button fade from its background color to a light blue when I hover the mouse over it. So in the last example, it flashes red and then quickly fades to blue.

Is there a way to make the button not fade to blue so I can see the red background?

Title: These are tutorial
Name: Keyvan Nayyeri
Date: 2006-10-23 11:38:04 PM
Comment:
My articles about XAML are tutorials. I said this many times. If you want more information, should spend more time and also read a book. I just want to give a background for beginners.

Title: yar
Name: ashish
Date: 2006-10-23 11:32:42 PM
Comment:
good work u did but u hav given basic knowledge

Title: Layout in XAML
Name: Keyvan Nayyeri
Date: 2006-10-12 12:57:17 AM
Comment:
Second part of these tutorials about Layout in XAML:
http://aspalliance.com/1023_Layout_in_XAML

Title: Introduction to XAML
Name: Keyvan Nayyeri
Date: 2006-10-12 12:56:33 AM
Comment:
First part of these tutorials about Introduction to XAML:
http://aspalliance.com/1019_Introduction_to_XAML

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