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Snippet from MainPage.xaml <Page x:Class="MyNewApp.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:local="using:MyNewApp" xmlns:d="http...

Resource dictionaries are accessible only inside the context they were declared, so if we intended to reference resources that are declared in one page context from another page they will not be found. So if we need global resources to be defined like the ones that comes with the framework we do it ...

Almost usually things are a little bit more complex and to support scalability we should split things apart. So we can define various files containing different resources dictionaries, i.e. resources for UI controls' themes, resources for texts and so on, then we merge them all together in App.xaml ...

We now need to access to our declared resources, in order to do that from XAML code we use {ThemeResource ResourceKey} or {StaticResource ResourceKey} to be continued later.