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FindName method of FrameworkElement class is used to find elements or controls by their Name properties.
Right-click the desired control and select Edit Template in the context menu. Click Edit a Copy as shown in Figure 3. In the Create Style Resource dialog, select one of the following options: To extract the style with the default control template in a specified document with a resource key.
Access of the controls from within the same assembly is hence allowed. If you want to access a control on a wpf form from another assembly you have to use the modifier attribute x:FieldModifier="public" or use the method proposed by Jean.
I strongly recommend the MahApps it's simply awesome!
Syncfusion has a free community version available with over 650 controls.
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You will find an FAQ there with any licensing questions you may have, it sound great to be honest. Have fun!
Edit: The WPF controls themselves are 100+, the number of 650+ refers to all controls for all areas (WPF, Windows Forms etc).
I searched for some good themes across internet and found nothing. So I ported selected controls of GTK Hybrid theme. It's MIT licensed and you can find it here:
https://github.com/stil/candyshop
It's not enterprise grade style and probably has some flaws, but I use it in my personal projects.
They have one for free as a sample at http://www.xamltemplates.net/
Silverlight and WPF Dashboards and gauges
Simple (but great) piece of work.
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