Chapter 9. Styling Your Application
One of the key features of XAML is that it enables exceptional user interfaces to be designed and implemented in Silverlight. When designing the look and feel of your application however, you don't want to have to customize each control and user interface element individually. This is where the use of style resources comes in—they enable you to maintain a core set of common styles to be used throughout your application.
Expression Blend has been designed to help you in the styling process, but in this chapter, we'll focus on the core fundamentals of styling in Silverlight, particularly how the styling model is structured and works, so that you can then take advantage of it however you wish. This chapter won't ...
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