Rectangle In WPF

The Rectangle object represents a rectangle shape and draws a rectangle with the given height and width. The Width and Height properties of the Rectangle class represent the width and height of a rectangle. The Fill property fills the interior of a rectangle. The Stroke property sets the color and StrokeThickness represents the width of the outer line of a rectangle.

Creating a Rectangle

The Rectangle element in XAML creates a rectangle shape. The following code snippet creates a rectangle by setting its width and height properties to 200 and 100 respectively. The code also sets the black stroke of width 4.

<Rectangle Width="200" Height="100" Fill="Blue" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="4" />

The output looks like Figure 5.

Figure 5. A rectangle

The CreateARectangle method listed in Listing 8 draws same rectangle in Figure 5 dynamically.

///<summary>
/// Creates a blue rectangle with black border
///</summary>
publicvoid CreateARectangle()
{
    // Create a Rectangle
    Rectangle blueRectangle = newRectangle();
    blueRectangle.Height = 100;
    blueRectangle.Width = 200;
    // Create a blue and a black Brush
    SolidColorBrush blueBrush = newSolidColorBrush();
    blueBrush.Color = Colors.Blue;
    SolidColorBrush blackBrush = newSolidColorBrush();
    blackBrush.Color = Colors.Black;
    // Set Rectangle's width and color
    blueRectangle.StrokeThickness = 4;
    blueRectangle.Stroke = blackBrush;
    // Fill rectangle with blue color
    blueRectangle.Fill = blueBrush;
    // Add Rectangle to the Grid.
    LayoutRoot.Children.Add(blueRectangle);
}

Listing 7

The RadiusX and RadiusY properties set the x-axis and y-axis radii of the ellipse that is used to round the corner of a rectangle. By adding the following lines of code to Listing 7 creates a rounded rectangle, which looks like Figure 6.

// Set roundness
blueRectangle.RadiusX = 20;
blueRectangle.RadiusY = 20;

Figure 6. A rounded rectangle