XAML Unleashed

Tile Brushes

The remaining brushes are tile brushes, because they derive from a TileBrush base class. In WPF, you can specify the brush’s content as infinitely repeating tiles and configure the tiling pattern in a number of different ways. In the other XAML-based UI Frameworks, however, none of these options exist. Instead, the way to think about a tile brush is a brush that contains bitmap-based content.

ImageBrush

ImageBrush enables you to use the contents of an image file. This is demonstrated with the following XAML:

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<Ellipse Width="400" Height="100">  <Ellipse.Fill>    <ImageBrush ImageSource="Assets/flower.jpg"/>   </Ellipse.Fill></Ellipse>

The flower.jpg image file is shown in Figure 7.24, and the rendered ...