Customizing Appearance

• Create a consistent user interface appearance by using styles. It may include but not limited to applying a style automatically to all controls of a specific type;  implementing style inheritance;  property value precedence (order in which dependency property values are applied).

• Change the appearance of a UI element by using triggers. It may include but not limited to using multiple triggers;   using property triggers; using event triggers;  using data triggers.

• Add interactivity by using animations. It may include but not limited to creating a storyboard;  controlling timelines;  controlling the behavior when the animation completes; animating non-double data types;  starting an animation from code.

• Share logical resource throughout an application. It may include but not limited to choosing where to store a resource; merging resource dictionaries;  retrieving a resource by using procedural code.

• Change the appearance of a control by using templates. It may include but not limited to inserting a trigger inside a template;  using predefined part names in a template;  respecting the templated parent’s properties.

• Localize a WPF application. It may include but not limited to loading resources by locale;  marking localizable elements;  using culture settings in validators and converters;  using language properties and rendering direction properties.