Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

Chapter 14. Resources and Styles

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Defining resources

• Defining styles

• Using static versus dynamic resources

• Stylizing the Contact Manager

In Hours 12 and 13 we worked hard to build a solid application architecture. We decided to use an MVP pattern and we organized the solution structure appropriately. Using MVP or MVC is a good approach to building almost any UI, but there are other important issues that must be dealt with as well. As applications grow, they depend more and more on resources such as graphics and colors. Over the development of a solution, a common “look and feel” may be designed, or it may emerge on its own. In previous Windows technologies, these styles would likely be strewn across various classes, creating ...