Is it possible to use a different theme for each control in WPF?

[VahidEra]

Hi guys'
I have a two theme in my WPF project, (material design xaml in toolkit) and (handy control), and I want to apply material design xaml in toolkit in one button and apply handycontrol to another button. Is it possible to do this?

[miloush]

Instead of relying on implicit styles, you could specifiy them explicitly, like we did for the tooltip, i.e. <Button Style="{StaticResource ...}" />

I do not know the handy style names, but Visual Studio should be able to offer you some available styles for button as you type {StaticResource . Alternatively send a demo project or link to the handy styles and I can have a look.

[VahidEra]

@miloush WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW, Dear jan It was exactly what I was looking for and as always you gave me a short, correct and practical answer. But I have another question in this regard, is it possible to define a theme as a sub-item and specify a name for it, which can be called if needed through static resources, like when we specify the path in the ResourceDictionary ?
For example, material design is the main theme that is applied to all sections by default, and handy control is a theme that is called when needed?

                <ResourceDictionary>
                    <Path x:Key="Query"  Data="m 18.397295,27.804428 5.230477,-12.069532 h -6.26827 V 12.75643 h 10.92796 l -6.361671,15.047998 z m 9.068444,3.888652 v -0.508536 h -6.209493 -6.209493 v -0.722657 -0.722656 h 6.209493 6.209493 v -0.533349 c -0.170874,-1.06551 0.806918,0.03475 1.244575,0.342872 0.684517,0.481922 1.243836,0.896571 1.242931,0.921442 -0.0017,0.0472 -2.37714,1.725712 -2.447358,1.729344 -0.02208,0.0011 -0.04015,-0.226766 -0.04015,-0.50646 z" Fill="#FF868484"/>
                </ResourceDictionary>

for example for theme:

               <ResourceDictionary>
                    <x:Key="Handy"  Source="pack://application:,,,/HandyControl;component/Themes/Theme.xaml"/>
                </ResourceDictionary>

[VahidEra]

@miloush Dear jan I found the answer to this question with a little manipulation in application.xml, the problem was solved by moving the order of the themes:

<Application.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ResourceDictionary  Source="pack://application:,,,/HandyControl;component/Themes/Theme.xaml"/>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf;component/Themes/MaterialDesignTheme.Light.xaml" />
                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf;component/Themes/MaterialDesignTheme.Defaults.xaml" />
                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignColors;component/Themes/Recommended/Primary/MaterialDesignColor.grey.xaml" />
                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignColors;component/Themes/Recommended/Accent/MaterialDesignColor.Purple.xaml" />
                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf;component/Themes/MaterialDesignTheme.PopupBox.xaml" />
            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>