Many of you in the Microsoft .NET Framework world are familiar with XAML. XAML is an XM-based language for working with objects. It has been used extensively in developing UIs in Silverlight, Windows ...

XAML files are a form of XML. As such, they have to follow the rules of XML. I suspect that most of you are comfortable with those rules. Why wouldn't you? XML has been omnipresent within applications ...

In the previous article, I walked through the basics of using Visual Studio to easily create a UI using some drag-and-drop controls that set up the front end of the UI. From there, we took the XAML ...

I'm trying to draw a circle with flat spots on the top and bottom, and am trying to do it by putting a rectangle opacity mask on top of a circle, but can't seem to get the opacity mask to do ...