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Source: ScottLogic

This article is part 3 of 4 in a series covering everything that I think is worth knowing about styles in Silverlight. The previous parts of the series are Styles in Silverlight: an Introduction and Styles in Silverlight – Inheritance, Precedence and Other Advanced Topics.

Styles in Silverlight are a powerful mechanism that allow controlling the visual representation of elements in a unified way for all user interface elements. The concept is similar to using CSS to control the look and feel of HTML.

Style properties differ by element type. For example on a TextBlock (a text element) one can style the FontSize, FontFamily, Foreground and lots of other properties. On an Ellipse however none of these properties can be set, on the other hand it does provide for example the Fill property, that the TextBlock does not.

There are lots of examples on blogs demonstrating printing on simple elements. However I wanted to test how the printing functionality performs when working with charts.

I chose to use the most widespread (and free) charting component, the Silverlight Toolkit. In my example I’ve created four charts and added printing support to all of them.