Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition

Style Basics

As you learned in the previous chapter, resources offer several key benefits, including simpler markup and more maintainable applications. So what do styles add to the picture?

To understand how styles fit in, it helps to consider a simple example. Imagine you need to standardize the font that's used in a window. The simplest approach is to set the font properties of the containing window. These properties, which are defined in the Control class, include FontFamily, FontSize, FontWeight (for bold), FontStyle (for italics), and FontStretch (for compressed and expanded variants). Thanks to the property value inheritance feature, when you set these properties at the window level, all the elements inside the window will acquire the ...