Part 4: Introduction to XAML - Continued

The mystery is solved!  Thanks for this series, Bob.  The lightbulbs are coming on and I'm enjoying the light.

@RyanCox: Funny    Keep plugging away at it!

cool series. one thing , I like your tip on using bing to search the documentation but it is a bit easier to just press F1 when your cursor is on the string you want to search.

Thanks for series. Always good stuff

@gerdi: Ahh ... nice tip!

Just created an account to tell you that this one was great; loved the handful of examples for me to pull from in the future. Thanks Bob!

@JonS: Thanks for the kind words!  Good luck as you continue through this series (and beyond).

Interesting that, from the toolbox, dragging in the ELLIPSE, the ouput XAML was terse, choosing not to include:

          <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops>
            <GradientStopCollection>
            </GradientStopCollection>
          </LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops>

Is that be design or just the editor mirroring our 1st implementation of the ELLIPSE?

(i.e. does the designer know when it can be terse?)

@flazer: Microsoft's developers are shrewd and try to be helpful.  They decide how to render values set in the Properties window into XAML.  The designer itself has no inherent knowledge of what can be shortened or expanded ... the developers of (in this case) the Ellipse class and control have pre-ordained how the format / shape of the XAML.  Hope that helps!

Great series

One of the best series, very helpful.
Great Bob

One of the best series, very helpful.
Great Bob

@CodeJedi113: @shota:  Thank you both!  Glad you're enjoying this.

An amazing set of videos, very useful and easily understandable.

thanks a lot Bob!