XAML Unleashed

Color Brushes

The three color brushes are SolidColorBrush, LinearGradientBrush, and RadialGradientBrush. The last one is WPF- and Silverlight-specific. These brushes sound straightforward, but they are more flexible than most people realize.

SolidColorBrush

SolidColorBrush, used implicitly throughout this book, fills the target area with a single color. It has a simple Color property of type Color. Color exposes four Byte properties (one per channel): A for alpha, R for red, G for green, and B for blue. Because of the syntax that treats strings such as “Blue” or “#FFFFFF” as SolidColorBrushes, they are indistinguishable from their underlying Color in XAML. In fact, color strings can take one of three different forms in XAML:

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