In this tutorial of Silverlight Toys you will learn how to use the built-in shaders and develop custom effects for your applications.
Pixel shaders are a compiled set of software instructions that calculate the color of the pixels and executed on the GPU. The instructions are written in HLSL (High Level Shader Language). Pixel Shaders allow for the development of custom effects. All elements, that derive from UIElement, have the Effect property that allows the element to render with the connected pixel shader.