Merge Resource in WPF Styles

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I am developing a project in WPF
and has added a styling file in XAML in the app.xaml as

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<application x:class="JIMS.App" xmlns:x="#unknown">
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             StartupUri="Home.xaml">
    <application.resources>        
        <resourcedictionary source="Skins/Style.xaml" />
    </application.resources>
</application>

and then in the Style.xaml as

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<resourcedictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation">
                    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
    <resourcedictionary.mergeddictionaries>
        <resourcedictionary source="Brushes.xaml" />
        <resourcedictionary source="Button.xaml" />
        <resourcedictionary source="Controls.xaml" />        
    </resourcedictionary.mergeddictionaries>
</resourcedictionary>

For certain controls i have not used key in style and gave target as that control iteslf.. I want that style to be applied to all the controls in my project...

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<Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
        <setter property="Height" value="25"></setter>
        <setter property="BorderBrush" value="#444444"></setter>
        <setter property="Margin" value="0,2,0,2"></setter>
    </Style>

but this style is not appling for all the controls in the Application even though i am able to see the style applied in the Visual Studio Designer window but no result in RunTIme

Posted 5-Oct-11 9:08am

Kishore Jangid

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pavel.bidenko · Answer 1 · 2011-10-06T01:31:00

Try to add a dummy default style in a dictionary, where you merge dictionaries.
<resourcedictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation">
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
<resourcedictionary.mergeddictionaries>
<resourcedictionary source="Brushes.xaml" />
<resourcedictionary source="Button.xaml" />
<resourcedictionary source="Controls.xaml" />
</resourcedictionary.mergeddictionaries>
</resourcedictionary>

<style targettype="Control" basedon="{StaticResource {x:Type Control}}" />

This should work