Set style of TextBlock programmatically

Question

I have this:

var MyText = new TextBlock();
MyText.Text = "blah";
MyText.Style = /* ??? */;

In XAML, I can set a style like this:

<TextBlock Text="blah" Style="{ThemeResource ListViewItemTextBlockStyle}"/>

But how do I do that in C#?

EDIT:

Error   1   'Windows.UI.Xaml.Application' does not contain a definition for 'FindResource' and no extension method 'FindResource' accepting a first argument of type 'Windows.UI.Xaml.Application' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Error   1   'Geodropper.HubPage' does not contain a definition for 'FindResource' and no extension method 'FindResource' accepting a first argument of type 'Geodropper.HubPage' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

When I tried (Style)this.FindResource("ListViewItemTextBlockStyle"); and (Style)App.Current.FindResource("ListViewItemTextBlockStyle") I got these errors.

something like `MyText.Style = (Style)this.FindResource("ListViewItemTextBlockStyle");` where this is your window or the element containing the resource or `(Style)App.Current.FindResource("ListViewItemTextBlockStyle")` — Xi Sigma, Apr 25 '15 at 18:56
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1729368/creating-a-style-in-code-behind and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10686917/setting-the-style-property-of-a-wpf-label-in-code — Eugene Podskal, Apr 25 '15 at 18:59
@ZudoMC sorry thought you were using WPF, otherwise `(Style)App.Current.Resources["ListViewItemTextBlockStyle"]` or `(Style)this.Resources["ListViewItemTextBlockStyle"]` — Xi Sigma, Apr 25 '15 at 19:11

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 25 '15 at 19:14

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Thank you decoherence! What I needed was the following:

var MyText = new TextBlock();
MyText.Text = drop;
MyText.Style = (Style)Application.Current.Resources["ListViewItemTextBlockStyle"];

answered Apr 25 '15 at 19:14

Zudo

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Set style of TextBlock programmatically

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