Question

Currently I can add resources to a control with something similar to the following:

Button b = new Button();
b.Resources.Add("item", currentItem);

I’d like to do this with XAML. I’ve tried something like

<Button Content="Timers Overview"   Name="btnTimerOverview">
    <Button.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <!-- not sure what to add here, or if this is even correct -->               
            <!-- I'd like to add something like a <string, string> mapping -->               
            <!-- like name="items" value="I am the current item."  --> 
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </Button.Resources>
</Button>

but I haven’t gotten any further than this. Is there a way to do this in XAML?

Answer 1

Try this:

<Window x:Class="ButtonResources.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525"
        xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib" 
        >
    <Grid>
        <Button Content="Timers Overview"   Name="btnTimerOverview">
            <Button.Resources>
                <ResourceDictionary>
                    <!-- not sure what to add here, or if this is even correct -->
                    <!-- I'd like to add something like a <string, string> mapping -->
                    <!-- like name="items" value="I am the current item."  -->
                    <system:String x:Key="item1">Item 1</system:String>
                    <system:String x:Key="item2">Item 2</system:String>
                </ResourceDictionary>
            </Button.Resources>
        </Button>
    </Grid>
</Window>