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Styles and Templates

In this chapter, you'll learn:
Styles and Templates

  1. Customizing the Appearance of a Control with a Control Template

    June 26, 2009|Level 300 : Intermediate

    Describes how to create a ControlTemplate to customize the appearance of a CheckBox control.

  2. Control Styles (Silverlight QuickStart)

    June 20, 2010|Level 300 : Intermediate

    Styles enable you to customize how controls look and behave across multiple controls. This is analogous to CSS in HTML, only more powerful.

  3. Styles

    July 9, 2009|Level 200 : Novice

    In this video Jesse Liberty demonstrates the advantages of factoring out style information from individual control instances into Style objects.

  4. How Do I: Change Styles at Runtime in Silverlight 3

    November 24, 2009|Level 300 : Intermediate

    Silverlight 2 forced you to reload your UI when you wanted to dynamically change styles. One of the style improvements in Silverlight 3 allows for changing styles at runtime without reloading your...

  5. Styling And Templating The Video Player

    November 11, 2009|Level 300 : Intermediate

    This example uses Blend to customize the visual appearance of the video player. This is a good starting point for designers wanting to brand the player.

  6. How Do I: Use Styles with BasedOn in Silverlight 3?

    October 12, 2009|Level 300 : Intermediate

    Silverlight 3 added support for the BasedOn attribute. This allows for a much more efficient use of styles. In this video, Todd Miranda demonstrates how to use the BasedOn attribute of styles.