Question

In my application I have several menus with the same background color, corner radius,border color and border thickness. I save those properties as resources in my application resources so that if I change the background color for example it will change the color of all my menus. I was wondering if it is possible to create a style so that I can just bind that style to the menus instead of binding so many properties. Moreover I just want to apply that style to some borders because not all borders in my application are menus. How could I do that?

for example I am hoping to do something like:

here is my style in my application resources:

     <Style x:Key="someStyle">
        <Style.Resources>
            <Color x:Key="MenuBackground2">#BB252525</Color>
            <CornerRadius x:Key="CornerRadiusMenu2">7</CornerRadius>
            <Border x:Key="MainBorder2" >
                <Border.Background>
                    <SolidColorBrush Color="{DynamicResource MenuBackground}"/>
                </Border.Background>
            </Border>
        </Style.Resources>                       
    </Style>

and then on MainWindow.xaml place:

<Border Margin="498,90,25,0" Name="brdMain" Style="{DynamicResource someStyle}"></Border>   

but when I do that, brdMain does not seem to bind to that style…

Answer 1

Your Style is not correctly defined. It should be a collection of Setters. For example, your given style should be:

 <Style x:Key="someStyle">
    <Setter Property="Background" Value="#BB252525"/>
    <Setter Property="CornerRadius" Value="7"/>
    etc ...                      
</Style>

A Style is little more than a bunch of property setters. You can only set properties of the object to which the Style has been applied.