Question

I need to draw a pushpin for the Bing Silverlight control that can have the head be a variable color. I can draw a nice dot like this:

    Dim marker As Ellipse = New Ellipse
    marker.Fill = New SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, 11, 255, 0))
    marker.Stroke = New SolidColorBrush(Colors.Gray)
    marker.Width = 10
    marker.Height = 10

I’ll be making dozens of pushpins, each with a slightly different color for the Fill. How can I add the pointy part? I would like to have some amount of flaring out at the top so that it looks more like a pushpin and less like a lollipop.

Examples in C# are welcome as well.

Answer 1

Maybe there’s a reason you need it to be a custom one rather than using the built-in pushpin objects, but if not, you can set the background color on those pushpins like so:

myPushpin.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Gray);

As far as actually drawing your own, I’m not as sure. Could you draw some sort of a triangle?