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WPF introduces a very handy concept: The ability to store data as a resource, either locally for a control, locally for the entire window or globally for the entire application. The data can be pretty much whatever you want, from actual information to a hierarchy of WPF controls. This allows you to ...

Sharing a simple string was easy, but you can do much more. In this example, I'll also store a complete array of strings, along with a gradient brush to be used for the background. This should give you a pretty good idea of just how much you can do with resources: <Window x:Class="WPFApplic...

If you only need a given resource for a specific control, you can make it more local by adding it to this specific control, instead of the window. It works exactly the same way, the only difference being that you can now only access from inside the scope of the control where you put it: <StackPa...

In this example, we'll be accessing three different resources from Code-behind, each stored in a different scope App.xaml: <Application x:Class="WpfSamples.App" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http:/...