Setting the VerticalAlignment property for all controls

Question

My WPF UserControl contains two stack panels, each of which contains shortcuts, text fields, and radio buttons.
I would like to set the VerticalAlignment property in Center to all controls in UserControl with a minimal amount of code.

Now I have the following solutions:

• brute force - put VerticalAlignment="Center" in each control
• define one style for FrameworkElement and apply it directly
• Define styles for each type of control for a user control (this requires 3 style definitions, but automatically applies the style to the control)

These three solutions require too much code.
Is there any other way to write this?
I was hoping the style definition for FrameworkElement automatically set the property for all controls, but it does not work.

Here is a snippet of my current XAML (I missed a second, very similar stack panel):

 <UserControl.Resources> <Style x:Key="BaseStyle" TargetType="FrameworkElement"> <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center" /> </Style> </UserControl.Resources> <Grid> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> <TextBlock Style="{StaticResource BaseStyle}" Text="Value:" /> <RadioButton Style="{StaticResource BaseStyle}">Standard</RadioButton> <RadioButton Style="{StaticResource BaseStyle}">Other</RadioButton> <TextBox Style="{StaticResource BaseStyle}" Width="40"/> </StackPanel> </Grid> 

Edit:
Re Will comment: I really hate the idea of ​​writing code formatting code in codebehind. XAML should be sufficient for this really simple user control.

Re Muad'Dib comment: The controls that I use in my user control are derived from FrameworkElement , so this is not a problem.

Answer 1

I ran into the same riddle some time ago. I'm not sure if this is the “best” way, but it’s easy enough to control by defining your base style, and then creating separate styles for each control on the page inherited from the base style:

 <Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Width="500" Height="300" Background="OrangeRed"> <Page.Resources> <Style TargetType="FrameworkElement" x:Key="BaseStyle"> <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center" /> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="0,0,5,0" /> </Style> <Style TargetType="TextBlock" BasedOn="{StaticResource BaseStyle}" /> <Style TargetType="RadioButton" BasedOn="{StaticResource BaseStyle}" /> <Style TargetType="TextBox" BasedOn="{StaticResource BaseStyle}" /> </Page.Resources> <Grid> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> <TextBlock Text="Value:" /> <RadioButton>Standard</RadioButton> <RadioButton>Other</RadioButton> <TextBox Width="75"/> </StackPanel> </Grid> </Page>