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Fluent XAML Theme Editor Preview released! We’re excited to announce the preview release of the Fluent XAML Theme Editor application! As some of you may remember from our Build 2018 session this year, we previewed a tool using our new ColorPaletteResources API that allows you to set the color theme of your app through some simple color selections. This tool is now publicly available to insiders and those running on pre-release builds (Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17723 or newer) to test out on our GitHub repository! How to use the Fluent XAML Theme Editor With the preview build, you can select three major colors for both the Light and Dark themes in the right-hand properties view labeled “Color Dictionary”: Region – The background that all the controls sit on, which is a separate resource that does not exist in our framework. Base – Represents all our controls’ backplates and their temporary state visuals like hover or press. In general, Base [ more… ]