2012 Visual Studio Custom Control Xaml/Style Designer - How to edit generic xaml styles?

Question

I have been digging around online and in stack overflow, but maybe I am not asking the question correctly.

I am attempting edit my generic/default custom usercontrol style without opening up Blend. I want to know how I can edit a default style for a custom user control within VS2012. It wont let you "Edit Current", and I cant find an equivalent window in VS2012 like blend had where you can see all your resources and styles listed.

Anyone know where this is located at? The new Xaml editor stuff in VS2012 is fantastic, but custom user controls and their default styles are really important too.

Running VS2012 Ultimate - Update 2

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can't do this in VS directly (this is why Blend exists, i think :), but you can try using XamlWriter to get xaml code of the control you want to modify.

Just create a new WPF application, add a control you want to modify and a button with click handler.

Write the following inside the button click handler:

private void OnGetXamlButtonClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    string xaml = XamlWriter.Save(MyControl.Style);
}