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Referencing Your ThemePack

This is the sixth and final topic in a multi-part walkthrough that continues from Modifying the AssemblyInfo File. In this topic we will show how to reference the newly created ThemePack to style the xamDataGrid™.

  1. In the Solution Explorer, right click the solution and click Add, then click New Project… Name the project "ThemePackTestProject."

  2. Add a New Folder to the project called "Data" and place the Orders.xml file inside it.

  3. Right click on the References node and select Add Reference… Navigate to the Ultimate UI for WPF install folder and select the following three assemblies from the Bin

    • InfragisticsWPF.DataPresenter.dll

    • InfragisticsWPF.Editors.dll

    • InfragisticsWPF.dll

  1. Add a reference to the assembly that the MyThemePack project generated.

  2. In the Window1.xaml file, place the following namespace declaration inside the opening Window tag.

In XAML:

...
xmlns:igDP="http://infragistics.com/DataPresenter"
xmlns:igThemeOrangePeel="http://infragistics.com/Themes/OrangePeel"
...

  1. Create a Window Resources section defining a MergedDictionary object. This will expose all the styles from the ThemePack.

In XAML:

<Window.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
                <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                        <igThemeOrangePeel:DataPresenter/>
                </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
</Window.Resources>

  1. Create a resources section for the Grid panel defining an XmlDataProvider. The XmlDataProvider references the Orders XML file.

In XAML:

<Grid.Resources>
        <XmlDataProvider Source="../Data/Orders.xml"
          x:Key="OrderData" XPath="/Orders" />
</Grid.Resources>

  1. Create an instance of XamDataGrid, name it, and set its DataSource to the XmlDataProvider created in the previous step.

In XAML:

<igDP:XamDataGrid x:Name="XamDataGrid1"
  DataSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource OrderData}, XPath=Order}"/>

  1. Before running the project, right click ThemePackTestProject and click Set as StartUp Project.

  2. Run the project. When the mouse hovers over Records, they should be highlighted with a gold gradient.

xamdatagrid using custom created themepack