BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type TextBox}}" in Code Behind for Style

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Fredrik Hedblad picture Fredrik Hedblad · Mar 4, 2011 · Viewed 13k times · Source

How can you set the following in code behind?

<Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}" BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type TextBox}}">

I'm using a Theme merged in App.xaml. It works great for all Controls but when I define a Style for something, e.g. TextBox, the Theme Style doesn't get picked up unless I use BasedOn like above, instead it gets the default TextBox Style.

Now I'm creating a DataGridTextColumn in code behind and I can't get the BasedOn part to work for the EditingElementStyle

Style editingStyle = new Style(typeof(TextBox));
editingStyle.BasedOn = ...?;

Any suggestions? Also, is there any way to get the Theme Style instead of the default Style applied without using BasedOn?

Thanks

Answer

Pavlo Glazkov picture Pavlo Glazkov · Mar 4, 2011

Try this:

editingStyle.BasedOn = (Style) FindResource(typeof (TextBox))

And I don't know any way how you can make it apply the Theme style without specifying BasedOn. If there is such a way, I would like to know it too...

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