Simple styles

Simple styles are a set of custom, ready-to-use style resources for a set of common system controls, such as the Button and ListBox controls. The simple styles are contained in a resource dictionary that is not visible in the Resources panel until you draw a simple style from the Asset Library on the artboard. Expression Blend provides these simple style resources because modifying the style of a system control requires some knowledge of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) styles and templates in order to not break the functionality of the control.

Note

The Expression Blend simple styles are not available in Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 projects, but you can create JavaScript classes to define reusable controls. For an example, see the Button class in the ButtonGallery sample that is available from the Samples tab in the Welcome Screen (on the Help menu). For more information, see the Silverlight learning center.

In This Section

Conceptual

• Working with simple styles

• SimpleButton

• SimpleCheckBox

• SimpleComboBox and SimpleComboBoxItem

• SimpleExpander

• SimpleListBox and SimpleListBoxItem

• SimpleMenu and SimpleMenuItem

• SimpleProgressBar

• SimpleScrollBar

• SimpleScrollViewer

• SimpleSlider

• SimpleTabControl and SimpleTabItem

Try it

• Try it: Create a button by using bitmap effects

• Try it: Add animation to a button

• Try it: Create a rollover button

• Try it: Customize the appearance of the check mark in a SimpleCheckBox

• Try it: Customize the appearance of the expander button in a SimpleComboBox

• Try it: Changing the look of the selected item in a SimpleListBox

• Try it: Customize the progress indicator of a SimpleProgressBar

• Try it: Customize the look of a SimpleScrollBar

• Try it: Customize the Thumb element of a SimpleSlider

• Try it: Customize the SimpleTabItem using a bitmap effect

See also

Concepts

Styles and templates

Style and template overview

Resources