windows phone 8.1 Sliverlight - how to disable black and white theme for app only

Question

in windows phone 8 - we have 2 kind of theme, black and white,

as per this theme, in our app, all control background and all property are changing..

my question is - the app i am developing is theme independent, i want same look and feel in both theme color, whether it is black or white.

what i am trying is set colors for all property - for example, background, foreground, etc

BorderBrush="{StaticResource WhiteSolidColorBrush}" Foreground="{StaticResource WhiteSolidColorBrush}"

it is the same question asked here, but i am not able to apply in windows phone 8.1 sliverlight- Windows phone 8 How to be always on one theme even if phone's theme changed

how it is possible ?

Answer 1

Though I'm not sure what problem you're having with @JeffWilcox theme manager since it looks pretty cool and robust. There's still always the option of overriding those resources explicitly for your app (which is what it looks like his theme manager just gives a much easier way of doing.)

You can find pretty much everything you'll need regarding to this for Windows Phone 8.1 silverlight in the docs and the process of implementing what you appear to need is pretty straight forward.

Answer 2

You have two options in Silverlight 8.1:

1:

Like Chris W. pointed out, JeffWilcox Theme manager overrides the theme resources at runtime (cannot do that in Xaml, sadly).

You can just set the Designer in VS to the Theme you like.

2:

The other is to override the default style for the controls you use. Just copy the default style for each control u use and change the color resources in the templates.

You can access the templates either by creating a copy in the editor (Select the control in the outline, click edit templates > edit a copy, or find them in the SDK folders directly:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.1\Design\System.Windows.xaml

I personally prefer the second approach. It sounds like a lot of work, but you actually do not use so many controls. Recently used it in a big app end ended up with just overriding 11 control templates (and mostly just changing the colors and font-sizes).