Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Applying a DrawingBrush

The DrawingBrush brush enables you to paint an area with a so called drawing. A drawing, according to the MSDN documentation, can be a shape, an image, a video, text, or another item and is an instance of the System.Windows.Media.Drawing class. The following code sample fills a rectangle with a DrawingBrush defining a drawing where two ellipses intersect each other:

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<Rectangle Width="100"           Grid.Row="6">    <Rectangle.Fill>        <DrawingBrush>            <DrawingBrush.Drawing>                <GeometryDrawing>                    <GeometryDrawing.Brush>                        <LinearGradientBrush>                            <GradientStop Offset="0" Color="Blue"/>                            <GradientStop ...