silverlight - reusing components

Question

I am trying to create some reusable components in Silverlight2. The difficulty comes when my components are using templates/styles that are shared with other components.

• From what I know, in silverlight you can add the style/template in the component itself (not good enough due to duplicate styles) or in the main app file (this does not help with reusing components in other silverlight projects).

• I've just read about templates added in silverlight toolkit (march release) but ... the template does not allow me to define named styles (for example I have more than one style for buttons)

My question: is it possible to create reusable components with styles/templates defined in a single place? (By reusable I mean to be reused in other projects)

Thank You!

Answer 1

This is a feature coming in Silverlight 3 - due later this year (2009). "Enhanced control skinning. Silverlight 3 provides easier skinning capabilities by keeping a common set of controls external from an application. This allows the sharing of styles and control skins between different applications. " Silverlight.net