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answered on 23 Feb 2011, 06:29 AM

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Hi I am having trouble implementing setting themes or even using themes.
I am using SL4, Telerlic 2010 Q3, VS2010, and c#
I tried:

xmlns:telerik="clr-namespace:Telerik.Windows.Controls;assembly=Telerik.Windows.Controls"

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<tknv:RadMenu Height="22" Background="White" Margin="0,0,0,0" telerik:StyleManager.Theme="Vista">

and no changes occur.

If I set the theme in the App.Xaml.cs, it does work:

Telerik.Windows.Controls.

StyleManager.ApplicationTheme = new Telerik.Windows.Controls.VistaTheme();
However the words in the top menu are cutoff (see attached)

However our application has two possible audiences and would like a different theme for each one, so setting one theme in the app.xaml will not meet that need. The primary area of concern is the color displayed when hovering over a menu item. We would like a type of blue for one path and a green for the other path. So the preferred approach was thought to just override the appropriate colors in the appropriate resources. However I am having trouble finding where to do this. I did try just setting another theme in the code behind for a view file but no change occurred.

I tried the 'Modifying a Built-In Theme' help item, but as I said, I think the preferred approach was to dynamically change the appropriate resources (but maybe not). I has downloaded examples where showing how to edit a theme or resources. I tried the latter without much success, but I am not very familiar with Blend 4 (also I am a developer and a reluctent designer).

Can you provide some guidance and maybe an SL4 example?

answered on 23 Feb 2011, 03:22 PM

Hello Michael,

I have already replied to your support ticket.
For those who might be interested in this case I am pasting the answer here as well:

1. When you specify the theme in the App.xaml.cs, it will be applied to all RadControls at runtime, but it would not be visible at design time.
2. Considering the template structure of the RadButton, there is a missing xaml file, which is ButtonChrome.xaml where you can specify the color you need. Please check our online documentation where you can see the template structure of RadButton.nk.

Greetings,
Vanya Pavlova
the Telerik team

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