Silverlight 4 - Retrieve a solid color brush from Resource Dictionary at runtime?

Question

I am trying to retrieve a solid color brush pre-defined in a resource dictionary (Styles.xaml) from C#.

The problem is that when i run the following code nothing happens:

private void LinkContinue_MouseEnter(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    this.LinkContinue.Background = (SolidColorBrush)Resources["HoverColorBrush"];
}

However if I set the background in code explicitly it runs fine:

private void LinkContinue_MouseLeave(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    this.LinkContinue.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Gray);
}

Any ideas?

Answer 1

So the answer was Application.Current.Resources["ResourceName"] as SolidColorBrush! Who would've known that the Resources object points to the resource dictionary for the page? UGHHH