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Asked: 2026-05-12T13:34:12+00:00

I created a WPF application that has many buttons. Now the customer wants to

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I created a WPF application that has many buttons.

Now the customer wants to change all the buttons to icons.
For example:
All the OK buttons should have the same icon, all the cancel btns and so on.

I want to put in all the buttons Style=”{StaticResource ButtonStyle_OK}”, Style=”{StaticResource ButtonStyle_OK}” etc.

Now my question is in general what do I have to place in these styles

<Style x:Key="ButtonStyle_OK" TargetType="Button">
    <!-- What comes here? -->                
</Style>

I am affraid I am going to change all the buttons in my application to Image and use MouseDown event for click, would that be stupid?

NOTES:
I want the buttons to be an image – not a button that contains an image (i.e. I don’t want the original button frame), talking about the shape.
I want to have these buttons/styles reusable.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Take a look at this MSDN article on styling – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms745683.aspx

    I think you might be able to get some traction by reading the ControlTemplate section.

    Also, as noted by Chris, the styles can go into a resource dictionary and then can be applied globally against all buttons by omitting a key.

    UPDATE: You will not need to use image with click event, using the ControlTemplate will allow you to define the look of the button more precisely.

    Another example – http://mrpmorris.blogspot.com/2008/04/wpf-custom-button-templates.html

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