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redman
redman

Reputation: 2165

Telerik set application theme from XAML

Is it possible to set application wide theme from XAML in Telerik? There is only a code-behind example. I would like to set in in XAML and have a Metro theme in design-mode too.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2124

Answers (2)

Borislav Ivanov
Borislav Ivanov

Reputation: 5360

You could achieve this as follows:

<Application
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:telerik="http://schemas.telerik.com/2008/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"     
    mc:Ignorable="d"
    x:Class="SilverlightApplication.App">
        <Application.Resources>
            <telerik:MetroTheme x:Key="Theme" IsApplicationTheme="True"/>
        </Application.Resources>
 </Application>

Upvotes: 7

RashadRivera
RashadRivera

Reputation: 843

This did not work for me at first. It threw the follwoing exceptions:

{System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary. at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key) at System.Windows.ResourceManagerWrapper.GetResourceForUri(Uri xamlUri, Type componentType)}

Set property 'Telerik.Windows.Controls.Theme.ApplicationThemeSetter' threw an exception. [Line: 53 Position: 70]

I tried declaring it in the App.xaml and the Generic.xaml but the same result.

I also tried to set the theme in the XAML like:

<t:RadGridView t:StyleManager.Theme="Windows8Theme" ..../>

But this has no affect.

NOTE: I'm using 2012's Q3

I solved the problem eventually. You have to include the theme DLL. So in my case I wanted to use the Windows8Theme, I needed to add a reference to the Telerik.Windows.Themes.Windows8.dll. It would be helpful if Telerik's code throw an exception saying as much, but "hey", that's just me.

  • Rashad

Upvotes: 2

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