Windows 8 XAML Primer

CHAPTER 5

Styles and Templates

The most common way for programmers new to XAML to set styles on their controls is with inline styles. In other words, the styling information (font size, font family, etc.) is set as attributes on the control itself, as shown in the following code:

<Button     FontSize="24"     Height="60"     Width="180"     Content="Click Me!" />

While this works well in small demonstration programs, it gets tedious when setting the same styling information on dozens of controls. Worse, if you decide to modify the style (and you will modify the style!), you must replicate the changes on all of the dozens of controls.

The solution ...