How to extend instead of overriding WPF Styles

I had the same problem. I used Zack’s answer and improved it like following so if you don’t specify a style the overridden default is still taken in account. It’s basically what you would have done but just once in the ResourceDictionary. <Window x:Class=”TestWpf.RandomStuffWindow” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml” Title=”Random Stuff Window”> <Window.Resources> <ResourceDictionary> <!– Default Label style …

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WrapPanel as ItemPanel for ItemsControl

You might want to take a look at the ItemsPanel property: Gets or sets the template that defines the panel that controls the layout of items. Example: <ItemsControl> <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <WrapPanel /> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel> </ItemsControl> And you can set it in a Style as follows: <Style TargetType=”ItemsControl”> <Setter Property=”ItemsPanel”> <Setter.Value> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <WrapPanel /> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </Setter.Value> …

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Why can’t I style a DataGridTextColumn?

You can’t style the DataGridTextColumn because DataGridTextColumn does not derive from FrameworkElement (or FrameworkContentElement). Only FrameworkElement, etc supports styling. When you attempt to create a style in XAML for any type that is not a FrameworkElement or FrameworkContentElement you get that error message. How do you solve this? As with any problem, where there is …

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