Creating the Style of a control based on another Style

Styles support inheritance. That means, you can derive a Style from another Style. This can be done using the BasedOn property, which must point to another Style to inherit from. In this recipe, we will learn how to create a Style of a button control based on another Style of the same type.

Getting ready

Let's get started by creating a project named CH06.StyleInheritanceDemo. To do this, open your Visual Studio instance and create a project based on the WPF application template.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a base style for a button control and then derive it to create different button styles:

1. Open the MainWindow.xaml file and create a <Window.Resources></Window.Resources> section inside the Window tag.
2. Now, inside the window resources, add the following style definition, which we discussed in the previous recipe of this chapter:

<Style x:Key="ButtonBaseStyle"  
       TargetType="{x:Type Button}"> 
    &lt...