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Is it possible to change windows phone theme styles (eg: PhoneTextNormalStyle)

Is it possible to change PhoneTextNormalStyle from code behind ? I tried in ways but no luck.

I have already used this style in many places in my app . Now i want to change foreground color . How can i do this without changing all the places in xaml

Solution

  • You can create a custom style on your App.xaml based on the PhoneTextNormalStyle and just adapt the Foreground to suit your needs:

    <Style x:Key="RedPhoneTextNormalStyle" BasedOn="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}">
    <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Red"/>
</Style>

    Then adapting the current style calls to the new one should be fairly easy (search & replace)

    <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" 
                   Text="APP NAME" 
                   Style="{StaticResource RedPhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>

    The advantage of using a custom style is that you can always extend it if you need to add more functionality to it, as well as use it as a base for other styles