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Chapter 15. Templates (5.40 MB)

This chapter describes control templates. It explains how you can use templates to change the appearance and behavior of pre-defined controls. It also tells how to use ItemsPresenter and ContentPresenter objects to change the way lists and menus work.

Chapter 16. Themes and Skins (2.18 MB)

This chapter explains how to use resource dictionaries to provide application themes and skins. By changing a single resource dictionary, you can make a WPF application change the appearance of some or all of its graphical components.

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