Dan Kinchen
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Dan Kinchen
asked on 17 May 2010, 03:31 PM
Hello,
I ran across the following video:
http://www.screencast.com/users/borovinka/folders/Jing/media/32a62d8f-e6d3-420c-be8b-cbbc214daa9a
This video demonstrates exactly what I need to accomplish with the notable exception that I am not using the default telerik theme (I'm using Office_Blue). When you go to modify the GridViewHeaderCellTemplate Blend hardcodes the values of the colors for the default theme, not the one I am using which is set at the app level.
Any way to get blend to pick up the correct theme to modify?
I ran across the following video:
http://www.screencast.com/users/borovinka/folders/Jing/media/32a62d8f-e6d3-420c-be8b-cbbc214daa9a
This video demonstrates exactly what I need to accomplish with the notable exception that I am not using the default telerik theme (I'm using Office_Blue). When you go to modify the GridViewHeaderCellTemplate Blend hardcodes the values of the colors for the default theme, not the one I am using which is set at the app level.
Any way to get blend to pick up the correct theme to modify?
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Hello Dan Kinchen,
Yavor Georgiev
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You should try to set Office_Blue as your application theme globally, in your App.xaml.cs.
You can also find the complete source code for all themes in your RadControls for Silverlight installation folder (for example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\RadControls for Silverlight Q1 2010 SP1\Themes). You can either include the relevant XAML files in your project, or just copy/paste the template of the control you need.
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Dan Kinchen
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answered on 17 May 2010, 05:23 PM
I do set it globally in the app.xaml.cs. Perhaps I wasn't clear when I stated "When you go to modify the GridViewHeaderCellTemplate Blend hardcodes the values of the colors for the default theme, not the one I am using which is set at the app level."
Anyway, to reiterate. If you
1) Set up a non-default theme in your App.xaml.cs
2) Add a RadGridView to a page
3) Open the page in Blend 3
4) Attempt to modify the HeaderCellStyle
The result is that the custom style that Blend creates will be based off of the default telerik theme (Office_Black), not the one set up in the App.xaml.cs (in my case Office_Blue).
I guess what you're telling me is I need to go pull apart the theme from the source code and update the style.
Anyway, to reiterate. If you
1) Set up a non-default theme in your App.xaml.cs
2) Add a RadGridView to a page
3) Open the page in Blend 3
4) Attempt to modify the HeaderCellStyle
The result is that the custom style that Blend creates will be based off of the default telerik theme (Office_Black), not the one set up in the App.xaml.cs (in my case Office_Blue).
I guess what you're telling me is I need to go pull apart the theme from the source code and update the style.
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Hi Dan Kinchen,
You can, of course, still use the source code for the themes that we provide in our installation redistributable.
Best wishes,
Yavor Georgiev
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We have done some investigating, and it seems that Blend does not pick up a non-default theme set globally in code-behind. What you can do is:
- Drop the GridViewHeaderCell part in your workspace
- In your XAML, add the telerik:StyleManager.Theme="Office_Blue" attribute to the GridViewHeaderCell tag
- In the Design view, select the GridViewHeaderCell part, and choose Edit Style > Edit a copy from the object menu.
You can, of course, still use the source code for the themes that we provide in our installation redistributable.
Best wishes,
Yavor Georgiev
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