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Marcin Wisnicki
Marcin Wisnicki

Reputation: 4701

Put existing object in ResourceDictionary using XAML

How can I insert existing object (from static field) into ResourceDictionary in a way that is equivalent to instantiating it there directly, ie. referencing resource with {StaticResource name} must return object instance and not some wrapper (like ObjectDataProvider).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 901

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Marcin Wisnicki
Marcin Wisnicki

Reputation: 4701

UPDATE

Unfortunately StaticExtension does not work in all cases, it looks like it just inserts StaticExtension object that is convertible to underlying source but it does not work in all contexts (for example when passing parameter value to markup extension).

Actual value is only inserted when using markup syntax {x:Static my:Foo.Bar} but that's only possible for properties while I need collections.

It seems I can do that with StaticExtension but for some reason not directly inside Application.Resources.

<x:Static Member="my:MyEnum.One" x:Key="one" />

It does work directly inside Resources of other classes and also in Application class if I wrap everything with explicit <ResourceDictionary>.

This is the error during compilation for the faulty case:

Error 3 Program 'X:\y\prog.exe' does not contain a static 'Main' method suitable for an entry point

Also, VS2010 crashed soon after when I started editing MainWindow.xaml.

Upvotes: 1

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