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Styles are a WPF mechanism to change the appearance and behaviour of WPF controls by modifing properties and attaching event handlers from a central point.

WPF Style as a convenient way to apply a set of property values to multiple FrameworkElements (via Setters, or conditionally via Triggers).

Related styles for different FrameworkElement can be packaged together as a theme.

References:

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Error: 'Cannot create unknown type '{clr-namespace:NameSpace.Properties}Settings'.'

I define my settings and styles in a ResourceDictionary:
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Finding the default style for a type in code behind

In WPF, you can create a Style that acts as the default for a control type in XAML: Then, when WPF goes to display that control, it looks up that Style from the resources based on the…
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Reset inherited WPF style?

In the App.xaml portion of my application I have a ResourceDictionary element that targets things like DataGridColumnHeader and DataGridCell and applies custom styling to them. These definitions are global (in that they don't use a x:key - they…
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Type reference cannot find type named '{clr-namespace:xxx}ClassName on MergedDictionary

I'm received the exception Type reference cannot find type named '{clr-namespace:Dashboard.View}DashBoardColors at runtime. I have a static class with my colors: namespace Dashboard.View { public static class DashBoardColors { public…
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Set WPF Binding.StringFormat Property on TextBox via Style

I have an WPF application contains many TextBoxes having different kind of Bindings which all share the same StringFormat property (its a technical application, the Textboxes should display values with units "xxx mm"...) I want to set up the Binding…
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Cursor not blinking in templated TextBox

I have the following TextBox in one of my views:
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TemplatedParent is null when used inside a ControlTemplate's DataTrigger

Consider this (edited-down) Style, designed for a Button whose Content is a String: