Hello, I'm sort of getting ahead of my VB courses for school and am stuck on a simple step.

On page 192 for Chapter 6 (XAML and WPF), in step 7, it states:

 

Then Step 8 goes on to say:

 

The problem for me is that when I select the Border element, the BitmapEffect property doesn't show up. In this element, I'm using the creditcard.jpg as suggested in the text (step 6).

Any help is greatly appreciated. Oh, I'm using Visual Studio 2008.

Thanks,
Chris

Chris,

What edition of Visual Studio 2008 are you using?

Thearon

MS Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
ver: 9.0.30729. 1 SP

Chris,

I was not able to reproduce the problem. Make sure that you click on the Border element in the XAML code editor and then you should see the BitmapEffect property under the Appearance category in the Properties Window.

Thearon

I had a similar problem and I found that the name of the file, in my case image1.jpg had a capital "I". Turns our xaml is case sensitive.

Make sure the references are spelled correctly and case is correct.

Kirk

I'm using VB 2008 Express and I have the same problem with the bitmapeffect property not showing up in the properties window.

If I double-click on the 'DropShadowBitmapEffect' XAML tag in the XAML code window (from the finished downloaded example) the property window will then show me the other "DropShadow" properties under a "Misc" heading.

Also, my version of VB puts the "DropShadowBitmapEffect" property under "Misc-Effects" but then disables the Effects box with the greyed out message:

"Value must be set in XAML"

Must be an express edition quirk or I'm doing something wrong.

ceric67,
Did you find a solution to your problem? I'm new to this forum, and have the same problem, but don't see any replies showing a solution. Thanks.

Guys check out my post here, it might help!

BitmapEffect property for Border control

<Just thought I'd put this here as well in case other's don't follow the link in the previous post>

The book states directly that you click border in the XAML code so I doubt people are actually sitting with the picture itself selected...

Anyway, I'm using the VS2010 Beta and sitting with the same problem. The intellisense works as expected but BitmapEffect is never available in the properties window. As with someone else though, double-clicking the DropShadowBitmapEffect text in the XAML code opens it's specific sub properties in the properties window, but still never showing BitmapEffect for the border control.

So it works, but I see myself missing out on many other effects I could be stumbling upon in the properties :(