Load WPF styles or other Static Resources from an external file or assembly

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Shimmy Weitzhandler picture Shimmy Weitzhandler · Apr 1, 2009 · Viewed 61.4k times · Source

I have a few WPF applications and I want all my styles to be in a shared assembly instead of declaring them in each application separately.

I am looking for a way so I don't have to change all my Style="{StaticResource BlahBlah}" in the existing applications; I just want to add the reference to this style assembly, and delete it from the current application, so it's taken from the assembly.

Is there any way?

Answer

Shimmy Weitzhandler picture Shimmy Weitzhandler · Apr 1, 2009

Referencing an external ResourceDictionary (XAML File):

<Application.Resources>
    <ResourceDictionary Source="MyResources.xaml" />
</Application.Resources>

Referencing an external ResourceDictionary (DLL):

<Application.Resources>
    <ResourceDictionary Source="/MyExternalAssembly;component/MyResources.xaml" />
</Application.Resources>

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