Lesson 20 - Audio/Video Player in C# and WPF - Appearance Customization
In the previous lesson, Audio/Video Player in C# and WPF - Code Improvements, we improved our code and made the control
buttons enabled or disabled according to the player's internal status. In
today's C# .NET WPF tutorial, we're bringing the promised appearance
improvements. We haven't spent much time on styling in this WPF course, the
wilder it's going to be today
We'll transform our player's window to look like this:

Creating Resources
First, we'll style the control buttons, making them round and with an icon. To do this, we'll create a new resource and put these properties there.
In Solution Explorer, we'll right-click on Project -> New Folder
to create a new folder and we'll name it Styles/
. In this folder,
we'll create a ButtonStyle.xaml
file. To do this, we'll right-click
the Styles/
folder and select
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