Chapter 9. Creating Advanced Controls and Visual Effects

This chapter extends your knowledge of control creation in WPF by showing you how to create some advanced controls as well as implement some popular visual effects such as reflection, drop shadows, opacity masks, and gloss effects.

This chapter provides samples and background technical information on creating controls that implement lasso selection, a dock slide presenter, and even a generic container for implementing PowerPoint-like slide transitions.

Lasso Selection Using the InkCanvas

The InkCanvas ...

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