Alias or Reference in ResourceDictionary

Question

I\'m looking for a way to essentially give an item in a ResourceDictionary multiple keys. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

There is no way that I know of to do this.

However, if your goal is multiple templates for multiple controls, you may be going at this the wrong way.

You could have multiple resources (data templates and dynamic resources) with the same globally named key, or default key (control class type) for styles, then load a different resource dictionary file into every control/region/tab/window, during run time.

Answer 2

You can pipe resources through dynamic resources (note that crappy UI designers won't like it)

<Color x:Key="color">Red</Color>
<DynamicResource x:Key="mycolor" ResourceKey="color"/>

<Rectangle Width="100" Height="100">
    <Rectangle.Fill>
        <SolidColorBrush Color="{StaticResource color}"/>
    </Rectangle.Fill>
</Rectangle>
<Rectangle Width="100" Height="100">
    <Rectangle.Fill>
        <SolidColorBrush Color="{StaticResource mycolor}"/>
    </Rectangle.Fill>
</Rectangle>