Styling project in visual studio solution (WPF XAML)?

Question

Regarding this question and Marc's answer, I find this solution perfect, but I have trouble organizing my solution to make it functional.

How can I create a styling project that contains only XAML and reference to sub XAML, and how can I use it elsewhere in my solution? What is the visual studio project used by Marc in his answer to create the styling project?

Thank you, B

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '17 at 15:40

You could create a WPF User Control Library in Visual Studio and add ResourceDictionary items where you define your XAML resources to it.

You then add a reference to this WPF User Control Library from your WPF Application project (Project->Add Reference in Visual Studio) and merge the resource dictionaries that are defined in the library in the App.xaml of your application:

<Application x:Class="WpfApplication1.App"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApplication4"
             StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml">
    <Application.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/WpfUserControlLibrary1;component/Dictionary1.xaml"/>
            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

Replace "WpfUserControlLibrary1" with the name of the WPF User Control Library and "Dictionary1" with the name of the ResourceDictionary that you added to this project.

Thank you mm8, that's what I was looking for – Dexluce Jun 02 '17 at 13:16 — Dexluce, Jun 02 '17 at 13:16

Styling project in visual studio solution (WPF XAML)?

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