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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Applying SelectionBrush and CaretBrush

WPF 4.6 offers two special objects, SelectionBrush and CaretBrush, which are properties of type System.Windows.Media.Brush and that accept brushes to be assigned to them. The first one enables you to apply a brush to the highlighting color when selecting text, whereas the second one applies a brush to the mouse caret within the control. Controls that can receive application of these brushes are TextBox and PasswordBox. SelectionBrush can also be applied to FlowDocumentPageViewer, FlowDocumentReader, and FlowDocumentScrollViewer. You apply both brushes as child nodes of the desired control. The following code demonstrates how to apply a linear gradient color for both the highlighting selection color and the ...

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