July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
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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:
<Rectangle Width="100" Grid.Row="6"> <Rectangle.Fill> <DrawingBrush> <DrawingBrush.Drawing> <GeometryDrawing> <GeometryDrawing.Brush> <LinearGradientBrush> <GradientStop Offset="0" Color="Blue"/> <GradientStop ...