How to assign WPF resources to other resource tags

Question

This is quite obscure, I may just be missing something extremely simple.

Scenario 1

Lets say I create a gradient brush, like this in my

Answer 1

The markup you're working with doesn't go up far enough. You don't create a LinearGradientBrush, your first example: you just reference the resource. For example:

In your second example, I'd say that you want to declare the array as a resource:

And then you can use