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Use Material Design and Caliburn.Micro simalteniously

I use WPF, and C#. I want to use both :MaterialDesign and Caliburn.Micro v4.0173 in one solution in Visual Studio. I have tried to add both of them to App.xaml, but materialDesign does not work. So the view of controls is the same as if I don't installed materialDesign.
<Application x:Class="WPFUI.App"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WPFUI">
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary>
<local:Bootstrapper x:Key="Bootstrapper"/>
<ResourceDictionary x:Key="MD1" Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf;component/Themes/MaterialDesignTheme.Light.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary x:Key="MD2" Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf;component/Themes/MaterialDesignTheme.Defaults.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary x:Key="MD3" Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignColors;component/Themes/Recommended/Primary/MaterialDesignColor.BlueGrey.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary x:Key="MD4" Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignColors;component/Themes/Recommended/Accent/MaterialDesignColor.Lime.xaml" />
<ResourceDictionary x:Key="MD5" Source="pack://application:,,,/MaterialDesignThemes.Wpf;component/Themes/MaterialDesignTheme.DataGrid.ComboBox.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
</Application>

Application a style to all page xaml wpf

I have a style file "dark.xaml" that I will use to style all xaml pages, so I place it in "application.xaml". But why my xaml page can't to access the style of "dark.xml"?
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/rtwin;component/style/Dark.xaml">
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>

From your ResourceDictionary source it seems that you are adding style from an assembly (correct if I'm wrong).
Well, in that case, you need to add pack://application:,,, so that your final App.xaml should look like this,
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/rtwin;component/style/Dark.xaml">
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>

Resource dictionary not found in WPF prism user control

I have the following project structure:
When I tried to add Resoucse dictionary inside my user control FloorplanHierarchy I am getting file not found error:
<UserControl.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source=".../UserControls/UserControlResources/LookUpEditTemplate.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</UserControl.Resources>
LookUpEditTemplate.xaml is inside the folder UserControlResources. Please help.

Remove UserControls in the source because UserControlResources and FloorplanHierarchy both are in the same folder.
So changing this:
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source=".../UserControls/UserControlResources/LookUpEditTemplate.xaml" />
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
To this:
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="../UserControlResources/LookUpEditTemplate.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
Should works.

MergedDictionaries nightmare

I'm trying to use a WPF Template and I'm supposed to include this in my App.xaml, but I get "Nested properties are not supported: ResourceDictionaries.MergedDictionaries" error and "The attachable property "MergedDictionaries" was not found in type "ResourceDictionary".
<Application x:Class="Unico.App"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml">
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<!-- Set default skin -->
<ResourceDictionary Source="\ExpressionDark.xaml"/>
<ResourceDictionary Source="\WindowStyle.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type Rectangle}" />
</Application.Resources>
</Application>
I've tried everything but still can't fix this. Any idea? Thanks.

MergedDictionaries is a property of ResourceDictionary.
Change to:
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
...
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type Rectangle}" />
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>

Can i store string in <Application.Resources> and bind to it?

I'm using Microsoft's AdControl on several pages... but in order to simplify it i would like to store ApplicationId once and read it as a resource.
Could it be possible to use in the App.xaml and then in the control set the binding to it? But how?

Use "{StaticResource name}" just like you would with <Page.Resources>
To store the resource, create a new <ResourceDictionary> in <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> and place your resource in that.
For example:
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<!--
Styles that define common aspects of the platform look and feel
Required by Visual Studio project and item templates
-->
<ResourceDictionary Source="Common/StandardStyles.xaml"/>
<ResourceDictionary>
<x:String x:Key="Foo">Bar</x:String>
</ResourceDictionary>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>