Jan 1, 2016 · In my case, it all works except this; in the development mode, I tried leaving with dark theme selected in Settings page. When I rerun the program, it firstly load with Light theme. Only when I go to Settings page, the app goes changing to …

By default, the UWP apps support two themes - Light and Dark. You can specify your app's theme in the App.xaml by setting the RequestedTheme property to either one of the values (it is set to Light by default) or in App.xaml.cs in App constructor using RequestedTheme = ApplicationTheme.Light; (changing it anywhere later will cause an exception to be thrown).

Oct 27, 2015 · Second, the References property must be of type DependencyObjectCollection and the property itself must be a DependencyProperty or the theme changes don't propagate correctly. Finally, you can even use your own theme resources, and if your app doesn't specify an explicit theme, when you change the theme in Windows Control Panel (e.g., Light ...

Feb 17, 2018 · how to get windows system theme in UWP? Light/Dark var DefaultTheme = new Windows.UI.ViewManagement.UISettings(); WindowsThemeText.Text =DefaultTheme.UIElementColor(Windows.UI.ViewManagement.

Jun 30, 2017 · Default is the value that reflects the system settings, Dark and Light force the theme. If you want to actually detect the current theme in code when App's RequestedTheme is Default , you will probably need to check the some color resource like SystemAltHighColor for its value, because that will give you an idea of what theme is currently set.

May 22, 2015 · The High Contrast theme, pulls heavily from 8 additional System[blank]Colors that, similar to the SystemAccentColor, are OS-wide values. They're defined by templates and/or the user if they chose a High Contrast theme, which is an option Windows 10 has in its personalization settings.

Nov 5, 2020 · Most answers to this question I've found used the Theme (Default, Dark, Light) to do this. I would like if the user could change the Theme from Light to Dark Mode AND have a own AccentColor. The Theme change works. Changing the Accent Color as above also works.

Dec 9, 2020 · You could use ThemeResource to change the foreground of TextBlock controls when the theme changes. Note to change the RequestedTheme of elements to ElementTheme.Default if you have changed some elements' RequestedTheme property in UISettings.ColorValuesChanged event handler.

I'm creating a UWP library that contains custom controls and I want to define a dark and light theme for my controls. I understand that we can add a theme resource dictionary to the App.xaml. We can specify a dark/light theme there and set the requested theme property. But since I am making a library, I don't have an App.xaml in my project.

Feb 23, 2016 · Is it possible to get the current Windows 10 theme colors in UWP app with C# code? I have found Application.RequestedTheme property but it only tells me if dark och light theme is being used, not the actual colors. I have seen XAML markup that references theme colors but would like to know the RGB value.