This seminar teaches you how to effectively use styles in your WPF applications. You will learn the basics of styles, how to override styles, base styles on other styles, create resource dictionaries and override control templates. Resource dictionaries can be loaded dynamically, placed into DLLs, or right in your main application. You will learn the best practices around how to manage your dictionaries. Being able to change the look and feel of the default controls can go a long way in giving your users a great UI. You will learn to modify controls by changing their default template. At the end of this session you will walk away with a set of reusable styles and resources that you can use immediately in your WPF applications.