System.Windows.Media Namespace

Represents data returned from calling the AdornerHitTest method.

Represents an elliptical arc between two points.

Represents a cubic Bezier curve drawn between two points.

Creates and caches a bitmap representation of a UIElement.

Paints an area with cached content.

Defines objects used to paint graphical objects. Classes that derive from Brush describe how the area is painted.

Used to convert a Brush object to or from another object type.

Implements a set of predefined SolidColorBrush objects.

Provides a base implementation for caching a UIElement.

Converts a CacheMode from one data type to another.

Represents the metrics used to lay out a character in a device font.

Represents a dictionary of CharacterMetrics objects for a device font that is indexed by Unicode scalar values.

Represents the International Color Consortium (ICC) or Image Color Management (ICM) color profile that is associated with a bitmap image.

Converts instances of other types to and from an instance of Color.

Implements a set of predefined colors.

Represents a 2-D geometric shape defined by the combination of two Geometry objects.

Represents the display surface of your application.

Manages a collection of Visual objects.

Represents the sequence of dashes and gaps that will be applied by a Pen.

Implements a set of predefined DashStyle objects.

Allows WPF applications to disable dots per inch (dpi) awareness for all user interface elements.

Represents an ordered collection of Double values.

Converts instances of other types to and from a DoubleCollection.

Abstract class that describes a 2-D drawing. This class cannot be inherited by your code.

Paints an area with a Drawing, which can include shapes, text, video, images, or other drawings.

Represents an ordered collection of Drawing objects.

Describes visual content using draw, push, and pop commands.

Represents a collection of drawings that can be operated upon as a single drawing.

An ImageSource that uses a Drawing for content.

DrawingVisual is a visual object that can be used to render vector graphics on the screen. The content is persisted by the system.

Represents the geometry of a circle or ellipse.

Provides error exception data for media events.

Specifies the details of a single typeface supported by a FontFamily.

Represents a collection of FamilyTypeface instances.

Provides functionality for physical and composite font embedding.

Represents a family of related fonts.

Converts instances of the String type to and from FontFamily instances.

Defines which FontFamily to use for a specified set of Unicode code points and a culture-specific language.

Represents an ordered collection of FontFamilyMap objects.

Converts instances of String to and from instances of FontFamily.

Provides enumeration support for FontFamily and Typeface objects.

Provides low-level control for drawing text in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications.

Provides generalized transformation support for objects, such as points and rectangles. This is an abstract class.

Represents an ordered collection of GeneralTransform objects.

Represents a GeneralTransform that is a composite of the transforms in its GeneralTransformCollection.

Classes that derive from this abstract base class define geometric shapes. Geometry objects can be used for clipping, hit-testing, and rendering 2-D graphic data.

Represents a collection of Geometry objects.

Converts instances of other types to and from instances of Geometry.

Draws a Geometry using the specified Brush and Pen.

Represents a composite geometry, composed of other Geometry objects.

Specifies a Geometry as the parameter to be used for hit testing a visual tree.

Returns the results of a hit test that uses a Geometry as a hit test parameter.

Represents a sequence of glyphs from a single face of a single font at a single size, and with a single rendering style.

Represents a Drawing object that renders a GlyphRun.

Specifies a physical font face that corresponds to a font file on the disk.

An abstract class that describes a gradient, composed of gradient stops. Classes that inherit from GradientBrush describe different ways of interpreting gradient stops.

Describes the location and color of a transition point in a gradient.

Represents a collection of GradientStop objects that can be individually accessed by index.

Represents a collection of guide lines that can assist in adjusting rendered figures to a device pixel grid.

Defines parameters for hit testing. Classes derived from this common base class that can be used for practical hit testing include PointHitTestParameters and GeometryHitTestParameters.

Provides the base class for several derived classes that represents the return value from a hit test.

Represents a Visual object that can be connected anywhere to a parent visual tree.

Paints an area with an image.

Draws an image within a region defined by a Rect.

Defines a base class for all metadata operations on imaging related APIs. This is an abstract class.

Represents an object type that has a width, height, and ImageMetadata such as a BitmapSource and a DrawingImage. This is an abstract class.

Converts a ImageSource to and from other data types.

Converts instances of String to and from instances of ImageSource.

Represents a collection of Int32 values.

Converts an Int32Collection to and from other data types.

The exception that is thrown when the installed Microsoft Windows Media Player version is not supported. 

Represents a dictionary of strings that are used to represent the name of an object in different languages.

Paints an area with a linear gradient.

Represents the geometry of a line.

Creates a line between two points in a PathFigure.

Converts instances of other types to and from a Matrix.

Creates an arbitrary affine matrix transformation that is used to manipulate objects or coordinate systems in a 2-D plane. 

Maintains the timing state for media through a MediaTimeline.

Provides media playback for drawings.

Provides data for the ScriptCommand and ScriptCommand events.

Provides a Timeline for media content.

Specifies how numbers in text are displayed in different cultures.

Represents a subsection of a geometry, a single connected series of two-dimensional geometric segments.

Represents a collection of PathFigure objects that collectively make up the geometry of a PathGeometry.

Converts instances of other types to and from a PathFigureCollection.

Represents a complex shape that may be composed of arcs, curves, ellipses, lines, and rectangles.

Represents a segment of a PathFigure object.

Represents a collection of PathSegment objects that can be individually accessed by index.

Describes how a shape is outlined.

Converts a PixelFormat to and from other data types.

Represents the collection of supported pixel formats.

Represents a collection of Point values that can be individually accessed by index.

Converts instances of other types to and from a PointCollection.

Specifies a Point as the parameter to be used for hit testing of a visual object.

Represents the results of a hit test that uses a Point as a hit test parameter.

Represents one or more cubic Bezier curves.

Represents a set of line segments defined by a PointCollection with each Point specifying the end point of a line segment.

Represents a set of quadratic Bezier segments.

Creates a quadratic Bezier curve between two points in a PathFigure.

Paints an area with a radial gradient. A focal point defines the beginning of the gradient, and a circle defines the end point of the gradient.

Describes a two-dimensional rectangle.

Enables WPF applications to query for the current rendering tier for their associated Dispatcher object and to register for notification of changes.

Required arguments for the Rendering event.

Provides options for controlling the rendering behavior of objects.

Parses a RequestCachePolicy.

Rotates an object clockwise about a specified point in a 2-D x-y coordinate system.

Scales an object in the 2-D x-y coordinate system.

Represents a 2-D skew.

Paints an area with a solid color.

Defines a geometric shape, described using a StreamGeometryContext. This geometry is light-weight alternative to PathGeometry: it does not support data binding, animation, or modification.

Describes a geometry using drawing commands. This class is used with the StreamGeometry class to create a lightweight geometry that does not support data binding, animation, or modification.

Represents a text effect that can be applied to text objects.

Provides collection support for a collection of TextEffect objects.

Defines a set of attached properties that affect the way text is displayed in an element.

Describes a way to paint a region by using one or more tiles.

Defines functionality that enables transformations in a 2-D plane. Transformations include rotation (RotateTransform), scale (ScaleTransform), skew (SkewTransform), and translation (TranslateTransform). This class hierarchy differs from the Matrix structure because it is a class and it supports animation and enumeration semantics.

Represents a collection of Transform objects that can be individually accessed by index.

Converts a Transform object to or from another object type.

Represents a composite Transform composed of other Transform objects.

Translates (moves) an object in the 2-D x-y coordinate system.

Represents a combination of FontFamily, FontWeight, FontStyle, and FontStretch.

Represents an ordered collection of Vector values.

Converts instances of other types to and from a VectorCollection.

Plays a media file. If the media is a video file, the VideoDrawing draws it to the specified rectangle.

Provides rendering support in WPF, which includes hit testing, coordinate transformation, and bounding box calculations.

Paints an area with a Visual.

Represents an ordered collection of Visual objects.

Provides functionality for connecting one visual tree to another visual tree across thread boundaries.

Provides utility methods that perform common tasks involving nodes in a visual tree.

Describes a color in terms of alpha, red, green, and blue channels.

Enumerates Double items in a DoubleCollection.

Enumerates Drawing items in a DrawingCollection.

Enumerates GeneralTransform items in a GeneralTransformCollection.

Enumerates Geometry items in a GeometryCollection.

Enumerates GradientStop items in a GradientStopCollection.

Enumerates Int32 items in a Int32Collection.

Enumerates PathFigure items in a PathFigureCollection.

Supports a simple iteration over a PathSegmentCollection.

Enumerates Point items in a PointCollection.

Enumerates TextEffect items in a TextEffectCollection.

Supports a simple iteration over a TransformCollection.

Enumerates Vector items in a VectorCollection.

Enumerates Visual items in a VisualCollection.

Represents a 3x3 affine transformation matrix used for transformations in 2-D space.

Defines a pixel format for images and pixel-based surfaces.

Defines the bit mask and shift for a specific pixel formats

Represents the callback method that specifies parts of the visual tree to omit from hit test processing

Represents a callback that is used to customize hit testing. WPF invokes the HitTestResultCallback to report hit test intersections to the user.

Describes how content is positioned horizontally in a container.

Describes how content is positioned vertically in a container.

Specifies which algorithm is used to scale bitmap images.

Specifies the coordinate system used by a Brush.

Specifies whether to cache tiled brush objects.

An enumeration that specifies a hint to the rendering engine that text can be rendered with ClearType.

Determines how the colors in a gradient are interpolated.

Determines how the edges of non-text drawing primitives are rendered.

Specifies how the intersecting areas of PathFigure objects contained in a Geometry are combined to form the area of the Geometry.

Describes font embedding permissions specified in an OpenType font file.

Specifies the different methods by which two geometries can be combined.

Specifies how to draw the gradient outside a gradient brush's gradient vector or space.

Specifies the return behavior of a hit test in a hit test filter callback method.

Determines whether to continue the enumeration of any remaining visual objects during a hit test.

Provides information about the intersection between the geometries in the GeometryHitTestParameters and the visual which was hit.

Specifies how the culture for numbers in a text run is determined.

Defines an enumerator class that specifies the type of number substitution to perform on numbers in a text run.

Describes the shape at the end of a line or segment.

Describes the shape that joins two lines or segments.

Describes how content is resized to fill its allocated space.

Defines an enumerator class that describes the simulation style of a font.

Defines the direction an elliptical arc is drawn.

Defines the formatting methods supported by the TextFormatter class.

Defines the rendering behavior of static or animated text.

Defines the supported rendering modes for text.

Describes how a TileBrush paints tiles onto an output area.

Determines the means by which an error tolerance value is interpreted.