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  • Tip: What is the difference between styling and skinning

    0 comments  /  posted by  Ivan Dragoev  on  Nov 14, 2008 (more than a year ago)
    Styling control means to apply to the control's properties predefined in the style values. Styling deals mainly with properties like Foreground, BackgroundFontStyle and FontSize, etc.
     
    Skinning, on the other hand, allows you to build your own presentation for that control by defining control template. Thus, you are able to completely replace the standard presentation with another, which includes more visual elements, animations and other effects.
     
    That's it!


  • 1 comments  /  posted by  Ivan Dragoev  on  Nov 13, 2008 (more than a year ago)

    Styling control is a very easy way to tweak the minor visual characteristic of the control such as foreground and background colors, the font style and size, padding, etc. Usually the styles are stored as resources which allows you to reuse them whenever you want.

    The Style has TargetType specifying the type of the object the style can be applied to and a key used to identify the style. The Style contains numerous Setters, which describe the values which you want to set to specific properties.

    To apply style to a control simply specify the Style property of the control to point to the static resource with a specific key name.

       1: <Grid>
       2:     <Grid.Resources>
       3:         <Style TargetType="Button" x:Key="myButtonStyle">
       4:             <Setter Property="Width" Value="100" />
       5:             <Setter Property="Height" Value="25" />
       6:             <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="#FF87091F"/>
       7:             <Setter Property="Padding" Value="2"/>
       8:             <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="4"/>
       9:             <Setter Property="FontWeight" Value="Bold" />
      10:             <Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Portable User Interface" />
      11:         </Style>
      12:     </Grid.Resources>
      13:     <Button Content="Click Me!" Style="{StaticResource myButtonStyle}">
      14:     </Button>        
      15: </Grid>

     That's it!


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