XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Blend, Blend Tips on Jan 10th, 2012
I’m working on my book for O’Reilly this month (HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers). If you’ve written books or articles yourself you know there is a lot of prep involved in getting your machine into a clean state for screenshots. You don’t want to show a list of client project names to the [...]
Posted in Blend, Blend Tips, WPF on Aug 12th, 2009
Creating an ImageBrush in Blend has always been a multi-step process. Blend 3 makes a few improvements in the steps necessary for creating a ImageBrush. You can still use the traditional way if you desire. Copy an Image to Clipboard The first step in making making an ImageBrush is to copy a image to the [...]
Posted in Blend, Blend Tips, WPF on Apr 4th, 2009
A couple years ago I wrote a post regarding the WPF VisualBrush. As part of that post I discussed the TileBrush. TileBrush is abstract and defines a number of useful properties for creating a repeating pattern. For example you could set the source of the ImageBrush to a picture of a flower, then set properties [...]
