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Matthew
Matthew

Reputation: 4056

How to Cast Application Bar Color to a Theme Resource Color

I would simply like to customize my application bar so that under certain states different default theme colors are used. This is to give a little different feel to the standard application bar. My trouble is setting the foreground and background colors to theme resource colors. I am getting an invalid Cast exception when trying the following

ApplicationBar.ForegroundColor = (Color)Application.Current.Resources["PhoneChromeBrush"];

and I am not sure why? To note, no explicit error occurs before debugging.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 375

Answers (1)

Igor Ralic
Igor Ralic

Reputation: 15006

Use

ApplicationBar.ForegroundColor = (Application.Current.Resources["PhoneChromeBrush"] as SolidColorBrush).Color;

because that resource is a brush (hence the name PhoneChromeBrush) therefore you have to convert it to SolidColorBrush first and then get the Color property from it.

Upvotes: 1

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