August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
25h 52m
English
WPF provides resource facilities that let us plug bits of our user
interface together dynamically but consistently. We can store any
objects in resource dictionaries and then refer to these resources
throughout our applications. WPF's styling mechanism relies on resource
dictionaries to set properties and templates for our controls, based
either on an application's skin or on the currently configured system
theme. And, for binary resources—including the compiled BAML versions of
our XAML files—WPF uses the localization-aware ResourceManager system, which chooses the most
appropriate resources for the end user's chosen user interface
culture.