Style and Appearance

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The following sections explain in detail how to customize the Maps control's layout and appearance. You can use built-in layout options to lay your controls out in panels such as Grids or Canvases. Themes allow you to customize the appearance of the grid and take advantage of WPF's XAML-based styling.

Maps Properties

The following table outlines the brush properties of the Maps control:

Brushes	Description
Background	Gets or sets the brush of the control’s background.
MouseOverBrush	Gets or sets the System.Windows.Media.Brush used to highlight the map buttons when the mouse is hovered over them.
PressedBrush	Gets or sets the System.Windows.Media.Brush used to highlight the buttons when they are clicked on.

You can completely change the appearance of the C1Maps control by setting a few properties, such as the Background property, which sets the background color of the map’s tools.

The image shows the Maps control with a red theme.

Maps Theming

Complete the following steps:

Open the .xaml page in Visual Studio.
Place your cursor between the <Grid></Grid> tags.
In the Tools panel, double-click the C1ThemeRainierOrange icon to declare the theme. Its tags will appear as follows:

<my:C1ThemeRainierOrange></my:C1ThemeRainierOrange>
Place your cursor between the <my:C1ThemeRainierOrange> and </my:C1ThemeRainierOrange> tags.

In the Tools panel, double-click the C1Maps icon to add the control to the project. Its tags will appear as children of the <my:C1ThemeRainierOrange> tags, causing the markup to resemble the following:

XAML	Copy Code
<my:C1ThemeRainierOrange> <c1:C1Maps Height="172" Width="288" Margin="200,0,34,0"/> </my:C1ThemeRainierOrange>

Run your project.

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The following image depicts a Maps control with the C1ThemeRainierOrange theme.

The image shows the Maps control with a rainier orange theme.