Immutable Styles in Silverlight 2

Question

Anyone found a good pattern for getting around immutable styles in Silverlight 2? What I mean is does anyone have a workaround for the fact that you cannot switch the style of an element programmatically once it has been set, i.e. the second line here will throw a catastrophic failure exception: this.TestButton.Style = (Style)Application.Current.Resources["Fred"]; this.TestButton.Style = (Style)Application.Current.Resources["Barney"]; JavaScript questions and answers, JavaScript questions pdf, JavaScript question bank, JavaScript questions and answers pdf, mcq on JavaScript pdf, JavaScript questions and solutions, JavaScript mcq Test , Interview JavaScript questions, JavaScript Questions for Interview, JavaScript MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

Answer 1

It's not possible. The best workaround I've seen is from Nikhil Kothari at Microsoft: http://www.nikhilk.net/Silverlight-Themes.aspx There is a major drawback to defining styles centrally in App.xaml anyway, which is that it breaks all designer support when you reference those styles from other user controls. I haven't used it but Nikhil's theme engine looks very promising, and I have a funny feeling that many of his ideas will make it into the silverlight product eventually anyway.