Ribbon - Resource Dictionnaries

Hi Stephane,

We have a lot of customers who use our products on non-English systems and everything works fine for them.  Could you provide some more detail on what your scenario and the problem are?  Sorry but from your description, it isn't quite clear.  Thanks!

Well, leaving aside the language (the problem anyway is not using one language or another, it is rather having the possibility to switch; my application provides 3 different languages; I get this exception when i use something else than english; however, I do not yet have resources for every languages, only english...is it a lead?), what could prevent a project Modules.A in my solution from accessing styles (i.e. resource dictionaries) specified in another project B?

Application.xaml, in project B (forget about Fluent here; I did use Actipro's stuff during the tests):

<Application x:Class="Application"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
    <Application.Resources>
        
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/Modules.A;component/Resources/ValidationErrorTemplateStyle.xaml" />
                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/B;component/Resources/ControlStyles.xaml" />
                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/Fluent;Component/Themes/Office2010/Silver.xaml" />
                <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/Fluent;Component/Themes/Generic.xaml" />
            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>

            <SolidColorBrush x:Key="grpBoxBorderBrush" Color="#FF3E87F0"/>
            <SolidColorBrush x:Key="headerPropertiesBackgroundColor" Color="#FF01949B"/>
            <Thickness x:Key="grpBoxBorderThickness">2</Thickness>
            <SolidColorBrush x:Key="grpBoxBorderForeground" Color="Black"/>
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

 In all of the View's code-behinds in project Modules.A, InitializeComponent (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245825/what-does-initializecomponent-do-and-how-does-it-work-in-wpf) cannot find ValidationErrorTemplateStyle.xaml. But it can when I am NOT using Actipro's RibbonWindow. SO, if it is clearer for you now, could you please tell what is going on, or what am I doing wrong?

Thank you very much

Hi Stephane,

The only time we touch the Application.Resources is with our ThemeManager.  The ThemeManager will add/remove ResourceDictionaries to the Application.Resources.  However it is designed to only ever be touching its own dictionaries and shouldn't be affecting any of yours that you defined.

If you can't figure it out, I would suggest making a new very simple sample project that shows it happening with the bare minimum code needed to repro it and send that to our support address.  Reference this thread and be sure to rename the .zip file extension so it doesn't get spam blocked.  Then we can debug it and see what's going on.  Sorry but I'm not sure what could be causing your issue without debugging it.