Trying to Use Theme Dictionaries as Static Resources

[Elbon-Eastmage]

I have a style file that gets colors from a separate resource dictionary file. This file divides colors into light and dark themes using theme dictionaries.

My program will look at the system theme to determine whether to use the light or dark theme. Thus, I thought that I could use static resources, since the user won't be changing the theme within the program.

However, when I tried that, the program wasn't able to find the specified colors. Dynamic resources, though, didn't give me any trouble.

Do static resources not support theme dictionaries?

[maxkatz6]

StaticResource supports theme dictionaries. But it requires a context. See the code.

When you use StaticResource from XAML, it should already respect target object theme, and correctly resolve resources.
But if you use StaticResource from C#, this context might be missing.
For the C# code I would recommend instead using TryGetResource API instead.

[Elbon-Eastmage]

Huh. I did put StaticResource in XAML, but it didn't work. I am using CompiledBindings; could that be the problem? Or do I need to explicitly set the Context in the XAML file?