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Tuesday 24 July 2012

Creating tiled backgrounds in Metro style XAML apps

This class will let you tile an image in a Metro-style XAML app. Use an image that’s at least 128×128 for best memory efficiency

Textures can make your application beautiful. Here’s an example from http://subtlepatterns.com, which is full of classy textures:

Creating tiled backgrounds in Metro style XAML apps
A tileable (repeatable) texture image

These textures can make great backgrounds, but because the texture is usually smaller than your application (especially tiny textures like  ), you need to repeat (tile) the image vertically and horizontally. Images that “match up” on opposite sides are ideal. All the images on  http://subtlepatterns.comhttp://bgrepeat.com and http://www.repeatxy.com are tileable.

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