Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

30.5. Understanding the Role of WPF Styles

When you are building the UI of a WPF application, it is not uncommon for a family of controls to require a shared look and feel. For example, you may want all button types have the same height, width, background color, and font size for their string content. Though you could handle this by setting each button's individual properties to identical values, such an approach makes it difficult to implement changes down the road, as you'd need to reset the same set of properties on multiple objects for every change.

Thankfully, WPF offers a simple way to constrain the look and feel of related controls using styles. Simply put, a WPF style is an object that maintains a collection of property/value pairs. ...