Changing The MahApps Metro Theme

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gbmhunter picture gbmhunter · Apr 10, 2013 · Viewed 18.5k times · Source

I know that the MahApps metro theme comes with "themes" (colour sets), but I don't know how to change them from the default settings in my WPF application.

I have followed the beginners tutorial at MahApps.Metro Documentation (including adding the resource libraries at the top of the page), but it makes no mention about changing the theme.

The component/Styles/Colours.xaml file has the comment "from the cosmopolitan theme pack", which may be a helpful clue to someone better versed in WPF design than me.

I'm talking about an app-wide theme change, not an individual control.

Answer

Rich picture Rich · Apr 12, 2013

If you want to change the default colour scheme, just change which colour resource file is loaded.

from Blue:

    <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MahApps.Metro;component/Styles/Accents/Blue.xaml" />

to Red:

    <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MahApps.Metro;component/Styles/Accents/Red.xaml" />

You can also change programatically (once you've loaded every colour resource file) using ThemeManager.ChangeTheme().

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