Control Styles and Templates

Controls in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) have a ControlTemplate that contains the visual tree of that control. You can change the structure and appearance of a control by modifying the ControlTemplate of that control. There is no way to replace only part of the visual tree of a control; to change the visual tree of a control you must set the Template property of the control to its new and complete ControlTemplate.

The desktop themes determine which resource dictionary is used. The desktop themes determine which resource dictionary is used. To get the resource dictionaries for the desktop themes, see Default WPF Themes.

The following table describes the resource dictionary file names and their corresponding desktop themes.

In This Section

• Button Styles and Templates

• Calendar Styles and Templates

• CheckBox Styles and Templates

• ComboBox Styles and Templates

• ContextMenu Styles and Templates

• DataGrid Styles and Templates

• DatePicker Syles and Templates

• DocumentViewer Styles and Templates

• Expander Styles and Templates

• Frame Styles and Templates

• GroupBox Styles and Templates

• Label Styles and Templates

• ListBox Styles and Templates

• ListView Styles and Templates

• Menu Styles and Templates

• NavigationWindow Styles and Templates

• PasswordBox Syles and Templates

• ProgressBar Styles and Templates

• RadioButton Styles and Templates

• RepeatButton Syles and Templates

• ScrollBar Styles and Templates

• ScrollViewer Styles and Templates

• Slider Styles and Templates

• StatusBar Styles and Templates

• TabControl Styles and Templates

• TextBox Styles and Templates

• Thumb Syles and Templates

• ToggleButton Syles and Templates

• ToolBar Styles and Templates

• ToolTip Styles and Templates

• TreeView Styles and Templates

• Window Styles and Templates

Reference

System.Windows.Controls

ControlTemplate

Related Sections

Control Authoring Overview

Styling and Templating