WPF

    public partial class GlassButton : UserControl
    {
        <code>public string ButtonContent { get; set; }
        public Brush ButtonFill { get; set; }</code>

        public GlassButton()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            <code>this.DataContext = this;</code>
        }
    }




<UserControl x:Class="WPFTester.GlassButton"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    >
    <UserControl.Resources>
        <ControlTemplate x:Key="GlassButton" TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
            <Grid x:Name="OuterGird">
                <Rectangle Margin="0,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" StrokeThickness="1" RadiusX="4" RadiusY="4" <code>Fill="{Binding ButtonFill}"</code>>
                    <Rectangle.Stroke>
                        <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.382,0.116" StartPoint="0.618,0.884">
                            <GradientStop Color="#FF2511D8" Offset="0"/>
                            <GradientStop Color="#FFABCCE8" Offset="1"/>
                        </LinearGradientBrush>
                    </Rectangle.Stroke>
                </Rectangle>
                <TextBox Margin="0,0,0,0" Text="{TemplateBinding Content}" TextWrapping="Wrap" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" BorderThickness="0,0,0,0" Foreground="#FFFFFFFF" Background="#00FFFFFF" x:Name="ButtonTextBox"/>
                <Path Stroke="{x:Null}" Margin="8,3.712,5.029,8.122" Stretch="Fill" StrokeThickness="0" Data="M167.80889,10.198788 C168.06227,8.3587256 167.20925,7.2831486 165.45782,6.9550772 L19.671443,7.637693 C18.742518,7.708315 15.582248,7.6193257 15.429944,7.5239237 15.429944,7.5239237 12.279116,7.979001 12.279116,7.979001 11.119595,8.2070631 10.356582,9.1665193 9.9996476,10.875024 9.9996476,10.875024 9.8747544,13 9.8747544,13 L9.8557733,52.576677 C10.339993,53.918511 11.067782,54.510987 11.915916,55.079524 12.76405,55.648062 14.503288,55.148249 16.548011,54.66758 18.263785,47.574348 165.59877,4.0491713 167.80889,10.198788 z">
                    <Path.Fill>
                        <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.513,1.002" StartPoint="0.517,-0.105">
                            <GradientStop Color="#B2FFFFFF" Offset="0"/>
                            <GradientStop Color="#19FFFFFF" Offset="1"/>
                            <GradientStop Color="#77FFFFFF" Offset="0.382"/>
                            <GradientStop Color="#33FFFFFF" Offset="0.658"/>
                        </LinearGradientBrush>
                    </Path.Fill>
                </Path>
            </Grid>
        </ControlTemplate>
    </UserControl.Resources>

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Height="Auto" Width="Auto">
        <Button HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="0,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Width="Auto" Height="Auto" <code>Content="{Binding ButtonContent}"</code> Template="{DynamicResource GlassButton}" x:Name="BaseButton" BorderThickness="0,0,0,0"  />
    </Grid>
</UserControl>


Sample usage:

        <local:GlassButton ButtonContent="Hey!" >
            <local:GlassButton.ButtonFill>
                <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.369,0.21" StartPoint="0.675,0.774">
                    <GradientStop Color="#9992C0E8" Offset="0"/>
                    <GradientStop Color="#FFFF0000" Offset="1"/>
                </LinearGradientBrush>
            </local:GlassButton.ButtonFill>
        </local:GlassButton>

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++

Return matchingLogin.ToList()

sunil.n.cs wrote:

Is there any other way to retrieve data from database without using webservic

Public Function GetLoginName(ByVal strLogin As String) As List(Of UserSubset) 
  Implements IService1.GetLoginName
  Dim db As New DataClasses1DataContext
  Dim matchingLogin = From Login In db.tbl_Users Where Login.UserName.StartsWith(strLogin) _
    Select New UserSubset With {.Name = Login.UserName, .Password = Login.Password }
  Return matchingLogin.ToList
End Function