Comments on: Simple Path Data Resources that I Add to Every WPF and Silverlight Project

By: Robby Ingebretsen

Robby Ingebretsen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:22:59 +0000

@Dr. WPF — sweet workaround for Silverlight! I’ll update the post!

Stefan Olson — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:33:04 +0000

I should’ve made it clear that the situation I’m referring to is where you want to reuse the path, rather than the geometry.

…Stefan

Stefan Olson — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:20:22 +0000

Dr. WPF,

Hopefully they’ll get it fixed in Silverlight 4, then you might be able to become Dr. Silverlight as well!

…Stefan

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:30:47 +0000

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Dr. WPF — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:29:25 +0000

Looks like your blog didn’t care for the markup tags in the above comment. Good luck fixing that!

Dr. WPF — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:26:56 +0000

Nope. Still doesn’t work in SL3. Lame!

What does work in SL3 is to declare the path data using strings:

M0,0 L1,0 0.5,1Z
M0,1 L1,1 0.5,0Z
M0,0 L1,0.5 0,1Z
M0,0.5 L1,1 1,0Z
M0,0 L1,1 M0,1 L1,0

where the sys namespace is declared as xmlns:sys=”clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib”.

The usage from a Path element is exactly the same:

Note that this string approach will not work in WPF (and rightly so… it’s a hack), so file it under nonportable markup.

Cheers!
-dw