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#192 – Setting a Control’s Properties Using Blend
You can set a control’s properties in either Blend or Visual Studio. To set properties for a control from Blend, do the following: Open the window containing the control. Left-click to select the...
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#207 – Setting a Control’s Background Color
The Control class is a base class for all user interface elements that a user interacts with. (This includes the Window class). Control includes a Background property that you can set to cause the...
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#438 – Border Element Can Have a Background
You can use the Background property to specify a background color (or brush) for everything within a Border. <Border Margin="10" BorderBrush="DarkGray" BorderThickness="1" CornerRadius="4">...
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#439 – Using a DropShadow with a Border, part II
I described earlier how you can use two sibling Border elements to end up with the effect of a Border with a DropShadow. We did this because specifying a DropShadowEffect for a Border will lead to all...
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#682 – Panel Elements Only Fire Mouse Events When Background Is Set
If you create an element derived from Panel, like Canvas, and wire up any of the mouse-related events, you’ll notice that you don’t see your events unless you’ve set the Background property of the...
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#809 – You Can Use a Brush for a Control’s Background
A control’s Background property dictates how the background of the control is rendered. It is set to an instance of a Brush object. The two most common types of brushes are solid color brushes...
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#811 – Setting Color Values in Code Based on System Colors
You can set the Foreground or Background properties of a control to a brush that will render the control using one of the predefined system colors. The SystemColors class contains a number of static...
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#1,046 – Setting the Background Color of a Cell in a Grid
There are several different ways to set the background color of a cell within a Grid. They include: Setting the Background property of the element within a cell (e.g. a Label) Including a Rectangle in...
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