SilverlightShow: Tip: Using Blur and DropShadow effects in Silverlight 3 Comments

RE: Using Blur and DropShadow effects in Silverlight 3

LawBot — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:56:40 GMT

There is one thing to mention if you want to apply visually more than one effect on a certain control (regarding the comment from nikolayraychev).

The visual effect you set on a container control, like a border, canvas or a grid, does only affect the children of the specific container if you set the background of the container to "no brush".

For the german audience I recently published a demo video in german language on my channel LawBot on Silverlight on vimeo.com on how to build a 3D text effect on a Textblock control where I used this technique.

Best regards,

M. (LawBot/SilverLaw)

RE: Using Blur and DropShadow effects in Silverlight 3

nikolayraychev — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:56:53 GMT

Sorry for the late reply, Hasan.

I made a little research and found out that Silverlight 3 does not support multiple effects. But you can easily work around this:

    
            <Border> 
        
                <Image   
        
                    Width="300"      
        
                    Source="http://terraristic.net/photos/  
        
                        Brachypelma_albiceps/Brachypelma_albiceps_1.jpg"> 
        
                    <Image.Effect> 
        
                        <DropShadowEffect BlurRadius="30" Color="Gray"   
        
                            Direction="-45" Opacity="0.5" ShadowDepth="20">  
        
                        DropShadowEffect> 
        
                    Image.Effect> 
        
                Image> 
        
                <Border.Effect> 
        
                    <BlurEffect Radius="8">BlurEffect> 
        
                Border.Effect> 
        
            Border>

I hope that this is helpful for you.

Andean, thanks for the nice words :)

RE: Using Blur and DropShadow effects in Silverlight 3

Andean — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:11:46 GMT

Excellent article !! I saw another article doing pretty much the same with 3 or 4 borders ! and you just showed how easy is to do this with a lot less of XAML code. Thanks so much ! :-)

RE: Using Blur and DropShadow effects in Silverlight 3

Hasan KESER — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:37:40 GMT

can we use both of these effects ?I tried to use both of them ,but silverlight did not allow it.

RE: Using Blur and DropShadow effects in Silverlight 3

Thanigainathan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:05:05 GMT

Nice article,

Thanks,

Thani