Vista - Viewing styles in the January CTP

Now that System.Windows.Serialization.Parser is gone, and I'm finding
this.MainWindow.Style is now null, I was wondering if anyone has had any
luck with recent CTPs allowing the default styles to be outputted as text
for examination? I'm interested in some of the newer gel looks, but I'm not
seeing any styles for any of the controls I create (my old code would have a
default style loaded with the September CTP)

Parser was split into XamlReader and XamlWriter classes.

There's been a lot of performance work in styling & theming, but the split
between "normal" style and ThemeStyle (aka DefaultStyle) wasn't motivated by
performance. It was about letting users write styles that don't need to
duplicate everything that theme does, and without relying on BasedOn for
everything so that a single style can be used on different classes.

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-Nick Kramer [MSFT]
http://blogs.msdn.com/nickkramer

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"Keith Patrick" <richard_keith_patrick@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Now that System.Windows.Serialization.Parser is gone, and I'm finding
> this.MainWindow.Style is now null, I was wondering if anyone has had any
> luck with recent CTPs allowing the default styles to be outputted as text
> for examination? I'm interested in some of the newer gel looks, but I'm
> not seeing any styles for any of the controls I create (my old code would
> have a default style loaded with the September CTP)
>

I'm not quite following how BasedOn comes into play with the ThemeStyle.
Should I be using it much less than currently? Right now I basically use it
to have style trees that parallel the WPF visual hierarchy, but is that
something that can reduce my style sizes (although now that inherited styles
are working, it seems relatively lightweight as it is)