WPF Exercise pg192

hamish.garvin · April 19th, 2010, 06:18 AM

I have been learning to program in VB but I have a problem

in the "Try It Out" on page 192 I have followed the steps and have even
started over, but when i get to step 7 where it says

"In the XAML Code Editor, click the Border element. In the properties window, change the BitmapEffect property to DropShadowBitmapEffect."

I can't seem to get this option, I have read all other treads but nothing seems to work and I am at a loss, can anyone HELP!!.

I am using Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 installed.

jbinarao · May 18th, 2010, 06:43 PM

In Visual Basic 2008 Professional
With the "Border" selected either in the Form Designer or in the XAML code, in the Properties, I noticed that there is a More Properties selection that is located below the Appearance properties group and above the Brushes properties group.

The More Properties expands up and down, and the BitmapEffect property is hidding inside of there.

In Visual Basic 2008 Express
It's not listed in the Properties for System.Windows.Controls.Border. Intellisense does show it while typing in the XAML editor.

Also, you might also try manually placing the following code that was produced on my system inside of the Border element of the XAML code section:

Code:

        <Border Height="200" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,60,0,0" Name="Border1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="380">
            <Border.BitmapEffect>
          <DropShadowBitmapEffect Opacity="0.5" ShadowDepth="8" Softness="1" />
      </Border.BitmapEffect>
      <Border.RenderTransform>
          <SkewTransform CenterX="0" CenterY="0" AngleX="0.5" AngleY="-3" />
      </Border.RenderTransform>
      <Image Height="185" Name="Image1" Stretch="Fill" Width="300" Source="/CreditCardProjectName;component/CreditCard.jpg" />
        </Border>

blogradio · September 26th, 2011, 12:56 PM

Those looking for more information about generating WPF applications from scratch might want to check Charles Petzold's book "Applications = Code + Markup". Petzold tends to teach how to do things from scratch, and this one is no exception. There's a lot of benefits to knowing the XAML designer and project templates aren't magic, so I recommend it!