Define global textbox (or other control) width in WPF

Question

I'd like to be able to maintain the width of controls globally throughout my WPF application.

Previously in winforms world I'd override onload in a base form and iterate through all controls and containers and determine the type of controls and set the dimensions accordingly.

I guess I could do the same in WPF but is there any better way to do this?

Answer 1

Set a Style for TextBox at the highest level in your Visual Hierarchy.

Answer 2

Define TextBox style in the resource dictionary and put a setter to set the desired width

<Style x:Key="{x:Type TextBox}" TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
    <Setter Property="Width" Value="200" />
      ..........
</Style>