We’ve been working on an application using Silverlight 4 Beta 1 and we came across a problem when we wanted to style the new RichTextArea control. We wanted to remove the border in all instances so we could make a nice in-place edit control for rich text.
Well as it turns out this is very easy to do (see our next post for the full XAML code)… But we did have one problem – how to find the default style of the RichTextArea control since it hasn’t been documented yet and we didn’t have time to download and install Expression Blend 4 Preview (which can show the styles). We need to know the default style so we can easily copy and paste them and then customize them.
Turns out there is an easy solution at hand that involved the user of .NET Reflector, which is an awesome product by the way and if you don’t already have it in your toolbox then you should get it now.
Step 1
Open .NET Reflector, click the “open” button and open the following assembly:
%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Silverlight\4.0.41108.0\System.Windows.dll
Step 2
Expand the System.Windows item in the tree the expand the Resources folder and finally select the System.Windows.g.resources item. In the right-hand window you should see an entry called themes/generic.xaml.
Step 3
Right-click themes/generic.xaml and in the popup menu select Save As and save the generic.xaml file to your desktop. Then simply drag-and-drop generic.xaml into Visual Studio or any other XML viewer to get access to all the control’s styles which are in this file (including RichTextArea etc).
That’s all there is to it – Silverlight stores all the default styles for controls in this generic.xaml file so it’s a great time saver knowing where to find them.
Leave me your feedback and comments, I’d love to hear if you have a better way of doing this or other suggestions.
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