Can you use sketchflow controls/styles in a WPF application?

Question

I really love the sketchy-ness of the Sketchflow buttons and controls, and would love to use those controls/styles in my own WPF app, can this be done in anyway? Perhaps just reference the Sketchflow binaries?

Answer 1

I believe this should work if you do the following:

• Add SketchStyles.xaml to your wpf project (easiest way is to find it by creating a wpf SketchFlow project and copying it from there)
• Reference Microsoft.Expression.Prototyping.SketchControls.dll in your project (found here on my system: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Expression\Blend.NETFramework\v4.0\Libraries)
• Add a directory named "Fonts"
• In that directory, add the 3 fonts found in a SketchFlow project
• To make the default Sketch font work, open SketchStyles.xaml in xaml editing mode, and find the line with "Buxton Sketch", it will have a reference to your old project, it should be changed to look like this: < FontFamily x:Key="FontFamily-Sketch">Fonts/#Buxton Sketch< /FontFamily>

• Last, edit app.xaml in xaml editing mode and make sure it looks like this:

  <Application.Resources>
      <!-- Resources scoped at the Application level should be defined here. -->
      <ResourceDictionary>
          <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
              <ResourceDictionary Source="/Microsoft.Expression.Prototyping.SketchControls;component/ScrollViewerStyles.xaml"/>
              <ResourceDictionary Source="SketchStyles.xaml" />
          </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
      </ResourceDictionary>
  </Application.Resources>