ResourceDictionary in a separate assembly
Check out the pack URI syntax. You want something like this:
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/YourAssembly;component/Subfolder/YourResourceFile.xaml"/>
An example, just to make this a 15 seconds answer -
Say you have "styles.xaml" in a WPF library named "common" and you want to use it from your main application project:
- Add a reference from the main project to "common" project
- Your app.xaml should contain:
<Application.Resources> <ResourceDictionary> <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/Common;component/styles.xaml"/> </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> </ResourceDictionary></Application.Resources>
I'm working with .NET 4.5 and couldn't get this working... I was using WPF Custom Control Library. This worked for me in the end...
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