Texture background in WPF

Seems my first blog is this. I am enjoying working with WPF. Whenever I am creating a simple or large scale application, I like to use texture backgrounds other than plane background. Becacuse it looks crispy and makes our application more beautiful. So I want to show you how to create a texture background in WPF.

Hope WPF developers are well familiar with DrawingBrush. Using Drawing Brush it is easy to create thatch backgrounds. Consider we are going to create a background which alikes Expression Blend.

Geometry Brush will contain a group of Geometry Drawings. Since the above texture contains only two colors, let me create two Geometry Drawings with rect size of 60 x 60.

  <GeometryDrawing Brush="#C92F2F2F">
   <GeometryDrawing.Geometry>
       <GeometryGroup>
           <RectangleGeometry Rect="0,0,60,60"/>
           <RectangleGeometry Rect="60,60,60,60"/>
       </GeometryGroup>
   </GeometryDrawing.Geometry>
 </GeometryDrawing>

The Brush of Geometry Drawing decides the color of rectangle. I have given the another rect with size and brush.

 <GeometryDrawing Brush="#C92D2D2D">
    <GeometryDrawing.Geometry>
        <GeometryGroup>
             <RectangleGeometry Rect="0,0,60,60"/>
             <RectangleGeometry Rect="60,60,60,60"/>
        </GeometryGroup>
    </GeometryDrawing.Geometry>
 </GeometryDrawing>

Finally the Drawing Brush looks like the one below,

         <DrawingBrush x:Key="ThatchBackground" Viewport="0,0,15,15" ViewportUnits="Absolute" Stretch="None" TileMode="Tile">
            <DrawingBrush.Drawing>
                <DrawingGroup>
                    <GeometryDrawing Brush="#C92F2F2F">
                        <GeometryDrawing.Geometry>
                            <GeometryGroup>
                                <RectangleGeometry Rect="0,0,60,60"/>
                                <RectangleGeometry Rect="60,60,60,60"/>
                            </GeometryGroup>
                        </GeometryDrawing.Geometry>
                    </GeometryDrawing>
                    <GeometryDrawing Brush="#C92D2D2D">
                        <GeometryDrawing.Geometry>
                            <GeometryGroup>
                                <RectangleGeometry Rect="0,0,60,60"/>
                                <RectangleGeometry Rect="60,60,60,60"/>
                            </GeometryGroup>
                        </GeometryDrawing.Geometry>
                    </GeometryDrawing>
                </DrawingGroup>
            </DrawingBrush.Drawing>

You can use the Drawing Brush as a background of WPF objects as below,

  <Grid Background="{StaticResource ThatchBackground}"/>

I like to show the screenshot of my application, where I am using this texture background.

Enjoy with WPF...........!!!!!!!!