Question

How do you make repeatable backgrounds for things in XAML?

Back when I was working with HTML, I remember having bitmaps as backgrounds for either a page or for an area.

Now I find I want this same sort of thing in my XAML page for Silverlight. How do I do that? How do I make it repeatable so that the image pattern exists across, for example, a header area no matter how wide the browser window is?

Answer 1

In WPF it’s pretty simple. In Silverlight, it isn’t. However, this article gives an example of how to use a pixel shader to accomplish the task:

http://www.silverlightplayground.org/post/2009/03/22/Silverlight-30-Tile-Effect-with-a-Pixel-Shader.aspx

Another article here uses the same technique.