Reuxables are technically - ResourceDictionary files - that quickly and painlessly theme your entire WPF (3.0 or 3.5) applications! Just drop in a file, and you are ready to give your app that little extra! Something that makes the users and the clients (especially if you're showing a proof-of-concept) go "WOW"!

Theme: Candy

All reuxables themes come in both Static and Animated versions, contain lots of variations, and include FULL SOURCE!

Reuxables for Silverlight 2.0 will be available soon enough as Microsoft starts finalizing their release. Keep watching our blog.

Using reuxables is extremely easy. Check out the followings videos to see how to use them in Visual Studio 2008 and Blend 1.0/1.1.

Video Tutorial

Quick Tutorial

Visual Studio 2008
Open a .NET 3.0 or .NET 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Application project.

Go to Project > Add Existing File, and select the desired reuxables theme (a .XAML file).

Open the file app.xaml or application.xaml, and the add the highlighted line below:

                            <Application.Resources>

                                <ResourceDictionary>

                                       <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>

                                          <ResourceDictionary Source="ThemeFile.xaml"
                                />
                                
                                      </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                                
                                   </ResourceDictionary>
                            
                            </Application.Resources>

Don't forget to change ThemeFile.xaml to the appropriate name of the actual XAML theme file.

Blend 1.0/2.0/2.5
Reuxables are extremely easy to use with Microsoft® Expression Blend™ 1.0 and higher.

Create or open a Windows Application project in Blend (either .NET Framework 3.0 or .NET Framework 3.5).

Go to File > Add Existing File, and select the desired reuxables theme (a .XAML file). Blend will automatically theme all controls based on the skin. That's all you have to do!