How to tile an image in Expression Blend?

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Hi,
I've been googling this for hours and hours and can't find anything that explains it. Seems kinda silly. I have a perfectly tile-able image, which I want to tile on my window background - but I'm not able to. I choose Tile brush , set ImageSource to my image "bakcground.png", select TileMode > Tile - and nothing. The image is not tiled, it just sits there in a middle. If I choose Stretch > Fill, it works, image gets stretched, to fill the window, but that looks bad. I want to auto-tile the image, whatever the size window gets, when the window gets resized on normal use.

Am I daft and simply missing something? Or is this really that complicated?

Thanks in advance for any help.
I'm totally new to Blend, WPF and programming in general.

Posted 27-Sep-11 6:43am

shEiD

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Marc A. Brown · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-27T07:37:00

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Does any of this[^] help? I googled "wpf background image tile" and got that as the first result. It points in a couple of different directions for getting what you want.

Posted 27-Sep-11 7:37am

Marc A. Brown

shEiD · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-27T08:52:00

Thank You.
I was working in Blend, so I was looking for blend tile this, blend tile that, etc. As I said, I'm not a programmer, just learning as a hobby. So obviously Blend's graphical approach to making GUIs is very appealing, compared to writing xaml. Just goes to show you, I guess. :)

For anyone else wondering. I set the properties for Tile in XAML. The important ones:
Viewport="0,0,25,25"
ViewportUnits="Absolute"

The info is here: TileBrush.Viewport Property[^]
Scroll down to "Relative and absolute ViewportUnits".

Just out of curiosity, how the hell do I do that in "pure properties-like" blend, if it's even possible?