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Windows Phone and Windows 8.x: Designing Once for Both with XAML

With each iteration of the Windows Phone OS, it's getting nearer to converging with the Windows desktop OS (Windows 8.x). The most recent Windows Phone update includes support for universal ...
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Silverlight XAML Primer 3: Working with Image Brushes

Silverlight exposes an element named ImageBrush that can be used to show images within XAML objects. The ImageBrush element is useful any time you'd like to "paint" a PNG or JPEG image into a ...