Introducing Brushes
Probably lots of times you wanted to fill your UI controls with interesting background textures or with gradients or simply set a particular color, maybe as the background or the foreground. In Windows Presentation Foundation you fill visual elements with brushes. WPF defines several kinds of brushes, all deriving from System.Windows.Media.Brush
. The following list summarizes available brushes:
• SolidColorBrush
, which allows filling a graphical object with a single color. Colors are exposed as static properties from the System.Windows.Media.Colors
class.
• LinearGradientBrush,
which enables filling a graphical object with a linear gradient composed of multiple colors.
• RadialGradientBrush
, which is similar to the previous ...
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