Is there any way to use StaticResource in a WPF control library and be able to view at design-time?

Question

I have a WPF Control Library that is being added to a windows forms application. We want to allow the controls to be localizable, however I am not sure how to FULLY accomplish t

Answer 1

I too had a problem dealing with Styling Themes and available static resources. So, I created a stand-alone library that basically had nothing but the themes to be used all nested like your MERGED resources of your prior linked question.

Then, in the Windows form (.xaml), I just put reference to that library, something like

The "component" appears to refer to the root of the given "MyLibrary" project. In the actual project, I created a subfolder called "Themes", hence the source includes... ;component/Themes/...

The "MyMainThemeWrapper.xaml" is very much like your nested Merged Resource dictionaries, and it sees everything perfectly from other libraries.