[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Gets a collection of application-scoped resources, such as styles, templates, and brushes.

Syntax

public ResourceDictionary Resources { get; set; }

<Application>
  <Application.Resources>
    oneOrMoreResourceElements
  </Application.Resources>
</Application>
 

XAML Values

oneOrMoreResourceElements

One or more object elements, each of which creates and defines a resource. Each resource property element within each ResourceDictionary must have a unique value for the x:Key, which serves as the unique key when values are retrieved from the ResourceDictionary.

Property value

Type: ResourceDictionary

A ResourceDictionary object that contains zero or more application-scoped resources.

Remarks

The resource dictionary model supports many of the resource concepts you may be familiar with if you have created applications using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Microsoft Silverlight. The keys used for resource dictionary entries are object typed, which means that you can potentially key resource entries using keys of non-string type, if you have a markup extension available such that the x:Key value can be specified in attribute-value form XAML. For more info, see ResourceDictionary and StaticResource references.

Requirements

See also

Application

x:Key

ResourceDictionary and StaticResource references

StaticResource

Application resources and localization sample

Build date: 5/22/2012