General questions about Templates

Question

Hi,

besides my other questions that arose while researching for an upcoming project, I have some questions about Templates:

1. Where should Templates for controls be deposited?

2. Generic.XAML holds a basis-Template, but where are the others?

Thanks in advance

Chris

Answer 1

App.xaml is the central place to define Styles and Templates but it also good practice to put Styles in separate XAML files and then merge them into App.xaml so they become availaible globally.

e.g.

<Application xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" 
             ....
             >
    <Application.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="Assets/Styles.xaml"/>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="Assets/CoreStyles.xaml"/>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="Assets/SDKStyles.xaml"/>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="Assets/ToolkitStyles.xaml"/>
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

 

Answer 2

Thanks for that nice example!
I think we'll go with this solution.

Answer 3

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