23 January 2016

What themeresources are available for Windows 10 UWP apps?

If you use Blend, and what to color your elements using a system resource, you get a depressing number of resources in the pop-up. So much, that you actually have no idea what you are looking at. image
If you want to see what resources are actually available, go to the following directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\DesignTime\CommonConfiguration\Neutral\UAP\<framework version>\Generic
So for instance
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\DesignTime\CommonConfiguration\Neutral\UAP\10.0.10586.0\Generic

You will see two files:
  • generic.xaml
  • themeresources.xaml
Themeresources.xaml actually contains all of the theme resources, colors and whatnot, and generic.xaml the implementation of the various themes (default, high contrast and light).
Of course, once you know that, you can easily find some documentation on that, like this one on MSDN. It was not immediately obvious to me, and I then assume it won’t be for others, so I thought it best to jot this down quickly – if only for future reference.

1 comment:

peSHIr said...

As always, awefully useful example. I'll probably never use it myself, but that doesn't change one thing.