It only shows how to load them at runtime as skins, without depending on Windows settings. Loose skin mechanism is based on loose XAML files which are actually resource dictionaries. These dictionaries contain Styles, Templates, and Resources and are neither serialized baml nor packed into any assembly.
After load is complete, one should merge the dictionary with the application. Compiled skin mechanism is based on resource dictionaries inside XAML files, which are parsed, serialized baml and packed into the governed assembly. Types such as custom controls borders, decorators, etc. To load a theme or a skin based on a compiled resource, one may add a reference to the theme or skin assembly unless the theme is in the GAC , and merge it with the application resources.
To overcome some of the disadvantages in the compiled version theme, to be able to load compiled version theme from any directory and to simplify the load process of a skin, I have implemented a simple skin loader helper as follows:. Skin — An abstract base class for all skin loader types. It provides an interface for loading and unloading a skin, and maintains the skin resources.
The Load and Unload methods in this type merge or remove the skin resources from the application single instance resources respectively. It is important to remove the resources of a skin before loading others. Failing to do so may cause a memory leak. Viewed k times. Improve this question.
The good ones aren't free. Similar: Free WPF controls and control templates — user This link might help you nukeation. Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. The link to Reuxables themes by Nukeation is broken. At current time of writing nukeation. Thanks Kjetil. Just updated the link. Highrobotics created free theme at highrobotics. Add a comment. Mat J. Didn't noticed. Alex Janzik. I find it worrying that many of the posts in this thread look a lot like plain advertisements.
Which posts exactly do you mean? The direct link to the WPF themes project is here: WPF themes Download the source code currently there is no binary release and check out the demo that comes with it to get an idea of the capabilities. Thorsten Lorenz. These free themes do not include DataGrid support nor a few other new controls added in. NET 4 per their download page. Jobi Joy. Final link is broken : — Moumit.
Jetpack is by far the prettiest theme I found so far! You might want to change your own controls according to the current Windows Theme. Or, force a specific Theme for your application. For example, use different colors according to the current customer.
The easiest to implement is Compiled and Static. Skin is just a static property in App. In App. I really like this approach when all we need is to load a compiled Skin on startup. With some change, we can use this SkinResourceDictionary approach with dynamic skinning as well.
Besides, I want to show you two other methods to achieve skinning, which works both Statically and Dynamically. This is pretty similar to the previous example with SkinResourceDictionary. Since we need to change our Skin at runtime, we need to change the Source in the SkinResourceDictionary dynamically. It goes over all our merged dictionaries and causes them to reload. This is necessary even for regular resource dictionaries not SkinResourceDictionary because they might use StaticResource defined in a SkinResourceDictionary before it, and we want it to change according to the new Skin.
This is it. So if you use a Style for example that has StaticResource inside dependent on a Theme, it will not be updated on skin change. However, if that style is in a ResourceDictionary in another file and referenced in App. So just by moving all styles from the root of App. In other words, use App. We basically hold all our resource dictionaries in the code and replace them when skin change is needed. Simple to implement and simple to understand.
The idea is for each Skin to have a single Resource dictionary. So if you want the Blue Skin to be contained of BlueColors. Like this:. If BlueStyles. It will work however if BlueColors. More about this problem here. Another thing we might want to have is Shared resources, for all skins. These might depend on Theme resources and should be updated on Skin change. What we can do, is copy the content of some Skin and the content of Shared.
This should get the designer working. All of them rely on the Skin to be compiled. Meaning the XAML file is included in the solution.
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