How to Add styles to controls programmatically in c#

Question

Hello

I working on an enterprise win8 xaml app. All of my controls i.e. textblock/box are generated during runtime. However, I need to apply styles to them during runtime. Styles are defined in a style sheet file. I have reviewed several samples online, but they don't work. I have looked at:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/b046cffe-28e1-4e2b-b5b7-d3380d60cfb4/how-to-change-a-styles-setter-content-programmatically

If I do something like this:

Style checkit = (Style)this.FindResource(key); I am unable to compile as this.FindResource does not seem to exist in the windows store app framework. Am I missing something ?

I have also tried:

(Style)(this.Resources["TitleText"]); //this.Resources does not exist

Thanks for your help.

Bevan

Answer 1

Try like this:

Style myStyle = App.Current.Resources["myStyleKey"] as Style;

This will access all the resources even in Resource Dictionaries.

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Answer 2

Thanks!