Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Applying a DrawingBrush

The DrawingBrush brush enables painting an area with a so called drawing. A drawing, according to the MSDN documentation, can be a shape, an image, a video, text, or other 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:

Other than the brush, it is interesting here how ellipses are declared via EllipseGeometry objects that are the geometric representation of ellipses and are enclosed within a GeometryGroup that basically can group different kinds of geometric representations, such as ...