Windows 8 – Overriding Metro app resources

Once you've installed Visual Studio and explored the default templates one of the first things you'll want to do from a design point of view is changing the application brush resources. Usually this will be to alter the teal or purple selection colour (depending if you're using a Dark or Light theme) on most of the controls. The most common answer to this problem is re-template your control referring to your custom colours.

The simpler approach we've used at Marker Metro is the following, we'll create a Colours.xaml resource dictionary, this'll contain the Colour and Brush resources specific to the app we're developing. We typically reference this resource dictionary from the App.xaml.

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