Overview
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Learn how Windows Presentation Foundation tools like brushes and the visual Color Editor can help you create more appealing and engaging user experiences.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching
- Disable the WPF debugging tool
- Use the exercise files
- Overview of the brushes
- Examples of the brushes
- Which properties are brushable?
- Paint with a SolidColorBrush in code
- Paint with a SolidColorBrush in XAML
- The Brush type converter
- Color and colorspaces
- Work with RGB channels
- Use hexadecimal color values
- Opacity and transparency
- sRGB colorspace
- Use WPF preset colors
- Basics
- Use the Eyedropper
- Use HSL and CMYK color values
- Why use gradients in the UI
- Banded colors with LinearGradientBrush
- Create a LinearGradientBrush with Property window
- Transform gradients
- Create rings with a RadialGradientBrush
- Build a sample UI with gradients
- Decorate elements using the ImageBrush
- Set tiled properties using the TileBrush
- Clone UI elements using the VisualBrush
- Paint with video using the VisualBrush
- Add colors to XAML resources
- Add brushes to XAML resources
- Use system color resources
- Overview of an Opacity Mask
- Examples of opacity patterns
- Next steps
