Where does IDerivedStyle live in the IronWord API?

IDerivedStyle is an interface in the IronWord.Models namespace, shipped in IronWord.dll. It extends IStyle, IWordDocumentObjectProperty, and IDocumentObjectProperty, and its BaseStyle property returns an IBaseStyle.

What implements IDerivedStyle in IronWord?

ParagraphStyle, TextStyle, TableStyle, TableCellStyle, and TableRowStyle all implement IDerivedStyle. Use the concrete type that matches what you are styling, such as ParagraphStyle for a paragraph or TableCellStyle for a table cell.

Interface IDerivedStyle

Styles that derive from a base style.

Namespace: IronWord.Models

Assembly: IronWord.dll

Syntax

public interface IDerivedStyle

Treating the different Word style kinds through one common type runs through IDerivedStyle, the contract every concrete style in IronWord works through. It is what you hold when code handles paragraph, run, and table styles uniformly, reading each one's shared base and then applying overrides on the concrete type.

The concrete styles that implement it are ParagraphStyle, TextStyle, TableStyle, TableCellStyle, and TableRowStyle, so the interface is the common type across paragraph, run, and table styling. Its own member is BaseStyle, a get-only property typed as IBaseStyle that exposes the shared base a derived style reads its inherited values from. Because the property is read-only on the interface, you obtain the base through it rather than reassigning it; to apply a concrete style, work with the implementing type directly, such as setting a ParagraphStyle on a paragraph or a TableCellStyle on a cell.

The styled text how-to applies a style to text, and the document element tutorial shows where styles sit in the model.

Properties

BaseStyle

The original base style definition a style is based off of.

Declaration

IBaseStyle BaseStyle { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
IBaseStyle