How to reuse WPF styles?

Question

I have a style that I'm using on several columns of a Datagrid.

<DataGridTextColumn ...>
  <DataGridTextColumn.EditingElementStyle>
    <Style TargetType="TextBox">
      <Setter .../>
      <Setter .../>
   </Style>
  </DataGridTextColumn.EditingElementStyle>
</DataGridTextColumn>

I'm replicating the above style code for all columns. Is there some way to do this without replicating the code?

Answer 1

Put this in a ResourceDictionary or the parent control's(the Window or DataGrid) Resources:

<Style x:Key="TextColumnEditStyle" TargetType="TextBox">
    <Setter .../>
    <Setter .../>
</Style>

And you can reuse it like this:

<DataGrid>
    <DataGridTextColumn EditingElementStyle="{StaticResource TextColumnEditStyle}"></DataGridTextColumn>
    <DataGridTextColumn EditingElementStyle="{StaticResource TextColumnEditStyle}"></DataGridTextColumn>
</Datagrid>