#Xaml Theme How To Choose A

Apply a DevExpress Theme to an Application Approach 1Open the Window’s or the User Control’s Quick Action or Smart Tag, expand the ApplicationTheme drop-down list, and select a theme. The list only shows the themes that are referenced in your project.The resulting App.config file appears as follows:Controls load theme resources when you run the application. The Theme Designer highlights the element in the CodeView window. Right-click an item in the Individual Colors window and select Navigate to XAML to navigate to the line where this element is declared. Change a Palette Color in the CodeView Window. Follow the steps below to use the CodeView window to change an element’s color: Build your.

Xaml Theme How To Choose A

It looked pretty good straight away.I’ve previously posted on how to choose a Material Design palette, but for a refresher, take a look at this App.xaml.In addition to the Material Design palette, you need to set a base theme light or dark. Very quickly, I had a MahApps MetroWindow up and running, using MahApps themed controls, the Dragablz Material Design theme, and all of which were using the Material Design palette. Encouraging MahApps to pick up my Material Design palette turned out to be easy because of the way the MahApps guys had also separated out their accents. Being a big fan of MahApps and I was easily able to take things a step further and use the palette in conjunction with a MahApps MetroWindow. Making the separation between the colours and the Dragablz Material Design theme immediately paid benefit.

I created a list box with a few cards and the result looked pretty promising:It wasn’t long before I went even further and started styling a whole bunch of controls, and ended up with these:I’ve packaged all these themes (and will continue to add to) on NuGet:Where appropriate in your app you can include one or more of the contained resource dictionaries and use the Material Design style for a control in place of the MahApps. Having got to this point myself, I couldn’t help but start playing around a bit further with some Material Design. Firstly, merge in some of the usual MahApps dictionaries:Then, where you specify the primary Material Design colour, setup the MahApps brushes, but instead of pulling in one of the MahApps accent dictionaries, configure them manually, to use the Material Design palette:For a complete example see this App.xaml.Any controls added to your Window (or Dragablz TabablzControl) will now default to MahApps styles, but use the Material Design palette, leaving your application looking pretty good.