Constants in xaml

Question

Let\'s say I have a class defined something like the below:

namespace MyProject.MyConstants
{
    public class Constants
    {
        public class Group1Constan         


        

Answer 1

Try this one:

<MenuItem Header="{x:Static constants:Constants+Group1Constants.DoIt}">

I used "+" instead of "." to reference the nested class. Not sure if you'll run into problems doing this though.

Answer 2

For textbox label text field constants in XAML I use:

Text="{x:Static local:[myConstantNamesClass].[name of constant string in your constant class]}" 

and then need to build the solution to make it accessible.

(Note that the local: XAML namespace would be set to reference the CLR namespace of the Constants class at the very top of the XAML file.)