Working with ready-to-use 2D shapes

In WPF, a Shape is an UIElement that enables you to draw a 2D shape in your application. There are a couple of ready-to-use shapes already provided by WPF, and they are as follows:

• Rectangle
• Ellipse
• Line
• Polyline
• Polygon
• Path

All of these UIElements expose some common properties to draw the shape. The Stroke and StrokeThickness properties describe the color and the thickness to draw the shape's outline. The Fill property describes the color used to decorate the interior of the shape.

In this recipe, we will learn how to create various shapes.

Getting ready

Let's begin with creating a new project. Open your Visual Studio, and create a WPF project called  CH02.ShapesDemo. As we will be creating multiple shapes, we will be using the UniformGrid panel to host the shapes in this demonstration. You can learn more about this panel in the next chapter.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create various shapes in your application:

1. Open your MainWindow.xaml file, and replace...