Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Introducing Styles

One of the biggest benefits of WPF user controls is that their layout is completely customizable. As explained further in the “Introducing Control Templates” section, you can completely redefine their layout and behavior using templates. There are situations in which you have multiple controls of the same type and you want them to have the same properties. For example, you might want to implement three buttons and each button should have the same width, height, and font as the other ones. To avoid the need of applying the same properties for each control, which can be annoying if you have dozens of controls, you can define a Style. A style is an instance of the System.Windows.Style class and enables you to define a set of ...