Comments on: Using Merged ResourceDictionaries in Silverlight Themes http://www.planetmarshall.co.uk/2009/07/using-merged-resourcedictionaries-in-silverlight-themes/ Andrew Marshall's blog Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew http://www.planetmarshall.co.uk/2009/07/using-merged-resourcedictionaries-in-silverlight-themes/#comment-22 Andrew Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:17:21 +0000 http://www.planetmarshall.co.uk/?p=303#comment-22 Thanks for your comment. So far as I know the issue still exists since no comment has been made on the issue at http://silverlight.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=3427, but I haven't tried the latest release with SL3 since I've now moved to SL4b development. Best of luck, Andrew. Thanks for your comment.
So far as I know the issue still exists since no comment has been made on the issue at
http://silverlight.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=3427,
but I haven’t tried the latest release with SL3 since I’ve now moved to SL4b development.

Best of luck,
Andrew.

]]> By: GA http://www.planetmarshall.co.uk/2009/07/using-merged-resourcedictionaries-in-silverlight-themes/#comment-21 GA Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:54:31 +0000 http://www.planetmarshall.co.uk/?p=303#comment-21 Hi Andrew, Thanks for the great info. Do you happen to know if this is still a problem with the Nov 2009 release? I would think so since I saw no release notes to address the issue but I wanted to see if perhaps you know for sure. Also, do you happen to know if the ISM bug about explicit style settings being overwritten by ISM has been resolved in the Nov 2009 release? I am debating whether or not to use ISM for a new theme based SL3 project I am working on. Given SL4 native support for implicit styles and ISM's issue, I am wondering if perhaps I should just use explit style always, at least for now until SL4 is released. Thanks again for your knowledge that you share. Cheers GA Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the great info. Do you happen to know if this is still a problem with the Nov 2009 release? I would think so since I saw no release notes to address the issue but I wanted to see if perhaps you know for sure. Also, do you happen to know if the ISM bug about explicit style settings being overwritten by ISM has been resolved in the Nov 2009 release? I am debating whether or not to use ISM for a new theme based SL3 project I am working on. Given SL4 native support for implicit styles and ISM’s issue, I am wondering if perhaps I should just use explit style always, at least for now until SL4 is released.

Thanks again for your knowledge that you share.

Cheers

GA

]]> By: Andrew http://www.planetmarshall.co.uk/2009/07/using-merged-resourcedictionaries-in-silverlight-themes/#comment-20 Andrew Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:32:38 +0000 http://www.planetmarshall.co.uk/?p=303#comment-20 Hi Chris. In response to your question - not exactly. Silverlight, unlike WPF, simply doesn't support implicit styles out of the box - you have to use the ISM from the toolkit in order to support this. The issue covered in this post is how to get the ISM to work with merged dictionaries. If you don't use the ISM, merged dictionaries will work fine, but as you say you will have to explicitly state the style you want to use on each control. Cheers, Andrew. Hi Chris.

In response to your question – not exactly. Silverlight, unlike WPF, simply doesn’t support implicit styles out of the box – you have to use the ISM from the toolkit in order to support this. The issue covered in this post is how to get the ISM to work with merged dictionaries.

If you don’t use the ISM, merged dictionaries will work fine, but as you say you will have to explicitly state the style you want to use on each control.

Cheers,
Andrew.

]]> By: Chris Maduro http://www.planetmarshall.co.uk/2009/07/using-merged-resourcedictionaries-in-silverlight-themes/#comment-19 Chris Maduro Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:44:43 +0000 http://www.planetmarshall.co.uk/?p=303#comment-19 Is this why I cannot implicitly style controls in silverlight without using the ISM(implicit style manager) from the toolkit? Should I just not declare a merged dictionary in the app.xaml file. This resource dictionary is from the toolkit, and does not have any x:Key elements. And Silverlight would implicitly style the controls? Or do I have to explicitly state Style="{StaticResouce MyStyle}" on every single control???? Is this why I cannot implicitly style controls in silverlight without using the ISM(implicit style manager) from the toolkit?
Should I just not declare a merged dictionary in the app.xaml file. This resource dictionary is from the toolkit, and does not have any x:Key elements. And Silverlight would implicitly style the controls? Or do I have to explicitly state Style=”{StaticResouce MyStyle}” on every single control????

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