System.Windows.Media Namespace

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Provides types that enable integration of rich media, including drawings, text, and audio/video content in Windows Phone-based applications.

Classes

	Class	Description
	AcquireLicenseCompletedEventArgs	Provides data for the AcquireLicenseCompleted event.
	ArcSegment	Represents an elliptical arc between two points.
	AudioCaptureDevice	Describes either the desired or supported formats for an audio capture device, such as a microphone.
	AudioCaptureDeviceCollection	Specifies a collection of AudioCaptureDevice objects.
	AudioFormat	Provides specific technical information about an audio format that is used by audio capture devices.
	AudioSink	Exposes the capture graph for audio devices. Derive from this class to receive audio information and to obtain the capture graph through AudioSink..::.CaptureSource.
	BezierSegment	Represents a cubic Bezier curve drawn between two points.
	BitmapCache	Represents the behavior of caching a visual element or tree of elements as bitmap surfaces. This can yield significant performance improvements for some scenarios.
	Brush	Defines objects used to paint graphical objects. Classes that derive from Brush describe how the area is painted.
	CacheMode	Represents cached content.
	CaptureDevice	Provides common properties for AudioCaptureDevice and VideoCaptureDevice.
	CaptureDeviceConfiguration	Represents a helper class for obtaining information about available capture devices (audio or video) and requesting client user permission to access the captures from available devices.
	CaptureImageCompletedEventArgs	Provides event data for the CaptureImageCompleted event of the CaptureSource class.
	CaptureSource	Provides methods that work with specific audio or video captures from the associated capture device.
	Colors	Implements a set of predefined colors.
	CompositeTransform	This class lets you apply multiple different transforms to an object.
	CompositionTarget	Represents the display surface of a Windows Phone-based application.
	DeepZoomImageTileSource	Used to specify the source of a MultiScaleImage.
	DomainAcquirer	Handles Join Domain requests.
	DomainOperationCompletedEventArgs	Provides data for join and leave domain events.
	DoubleCollection	Represents an ordered collection of Double values.
	DrmDomainRequiredException	The exception that is thrown when the domain certificate needed to play back the content is not found.
	DrmSetupDecryptorCompletedEventArgs	Provides data for the DrmSetupDecryptorCompletedEventArgs.
	EllipseGeometry	Represents the geometry of a circle or ellipse.
	FileSink	Used to save the video capture on Windows Phone to a file.
	FontFamily	Represents a family of related fonts.
	Fonts	Provides enumeration support for FontFamily and Typeface objects.
	GeneralTransform	Provides generalized transformation support for objects, such as points and rectangles.
	Geometry	Provides a base class for objects that define geometric shapes. Geometry objects can be used for clipping regions and as geometry definitions for rendering two-dimensional graphic data as a Path.
	GeometryCollection	Represents a collection of Geometry objects.
	GeometryGroup	Represents a composite geometry, composed of other Geometry objects.
	GlyphTypeface	Specifies a physical font face that corresponds to a font file on the disk.
	GradientBrush	An abstract class that describes a gradient, composed of gradient stops. Classes that derive from GradientBrush describe different ways of interpreting gradient stops.
	GradientStop	Describes the location and color of a transition point in a gradient.
	GradientStopCollection	Represents a collection of GradientStop objects that can be individually accessed by index.
	ImageBrush	Paints an area with an image.
	ImageSource	Provides an object source type for Source, Source, and ImageSource.
	ImageSourceConverter	Converts a ImageSource to and from other data types.
	ImplicitInputBrush	Represents the input bitmap to a shader.
	JoinDomainCompletedEventArgs	Provides data for the JoinDomainCompleted event.
	LeaveDomainCompletedEventArgs	Provides data for the LeaveDomainCompleted event.
	LicenseAcquirer	This class handles acquiring PlayReady licenses for protected content.
	LinearGradientBrush	Paints an area with a linear gradient.
	LineGeometry	Represents the geometry of a line.
	LineSegment	Represents a line drawn between two points, which can be part of a PathFigure within Path data.
	LogReadyRoutedEventArgs	Provides data for the LogReady event.
	Matrix3DProjection	Enables you to apply a Matrix3D to an object.
	MatrixTransform	Creates an arbitrary affine matrix transformation that is used to manipulate objects or coordinate systems in a two-dimensional plane.
	MediaStreamDescription	This class describes a media stream in enough detail to initialize the MediaElement and the underlying media pipeline.
	MediaStreamSample	This class describes a media sample in enough detail to allow the MediaElement and underlying pipeline to render the sample.
	MediaStreamSource	A MediaStreamSource delivers media samples directly to the media pipeline and is most often used to enable the MediaElement to use a container format not natively supported by Windows Phone.
	MultiScaleTileSource	Used to specify the source of Deep Zoom images.
	PathFigure	Represents a subsection of a geometry, a single connected series of two-dimensional geometric segments.
	PathFigureCollection	Represents a collection of PathFigure objects that collectively make up the geometry of a PathGeometry.
	PathGeometry	Represents a complex shape that may be composed of arcs, curves, ellipses, lines, and rectangles.
	PathSegment	Represents a segment of a PathFigure object.
	PathSegmentCollection	Represents a collection of PathSegment objects that can be individually accessed by index.
	PlaneProjection	Represents a perspective transform (a 3-D-like effect) on an object.
	PointCollection	Represents a collection of Point values that can be individually accessed by index.
	PolyBezierSegment	Represents one or more cubic Bezier curves.
	PolyLineSegment	Represents a set of line segments defined by a PointCollection with each Point specifying the end point of a line segment.
	PolyQuadraticBezierSegment	Represents a set of quadratic Bezier segments.
	Projection	Provides a base class for projections, which describe how to transform an object in 3-D space using perspective transforms.
	QuadraticBezierSegment	Creates a quadratic Bezier curve between two points in a PathFigure.
	RadialGradientBrush	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.
	RectangleGeometry	Describes a two-dimensional rectangular geometry.
	RenderingEventArgs	Provides event data for the Rendering event.
	RotateTransform	Rotates an object clockwise about a specified point in a two-dimensional x-y coordinate system.
	ScaleTransform	Scales an object in the two-dimensional x-y coordinate system.
	SkewTransform	Represents a two-dimensional skew.
	SolidColorBrush	Paints an area with a solid color.
	TextOptions	Provides options for controlling the rendering behavior of text, which can be set through an attached property usage on a wide range of Windows Phone types.
	TileBrush	Base class that describes a way to paint a region.
	TimelineMarker	Represents metadata associated with a specific point in a media file.
	TimelineMarkerCollection	Represents a collection of TimelineMarker objects that can be individually accessed by index.
	TimelineMarkerRoutedEventArgs	Provides event data for the MarkerReached event.
	Transform	Defines functionality that enables transformations in a two-dimensional plane.
	TransformCollection	Represents a collection of Transform objects that can be individually accessed by index.
	TransformGroup	Represents a composite Transform composed of other Transform objects.
	TranslateTransform	Translates (moves) an object in the two-dimensional x-y coordinate system.
	Typeface	Represents a combination of the FontFamily, FontWeight, FontStyle, and FontStretch classes.
	VideoBrush	Paints an area with video content.
	VideoCaptureDevice	Describes desired and supported video format information a camera on the device.
	VideoCaptureDeviceCollection	Specifies a collection of VideoCaptureDevice objects.
	VideoFormat	Provides specific technical information about a video format that is used by a video capture device.
	VideoSink	Exposes the capture graph for video devices. Derive from this class to receive video information and to obtain the capture graph through VideoSink..::.CaptureSource.
	VisualTreeHelper	Provides utility methods that can used to traverse object relationships (along child object or parent object axes) in the Windows Phone visual tree.

Structures

	Structure	Description
	Color	Describes a color in terms of alpha, red, green, and blue channels.
	Matrix	Represents a 3x3 affine transformation matrix used for transformations in two-dimensional space.

Delegates

	Delegate	Description
	LogReadyRoutedEventHandler	Represents the method that will handle the LogReady event.
	TimelineMarkerRoutedEventHandler	Represents methods that will handle various routed events related to timeline markers.

Enumerations

	Enumeration	Description
	AlignmentX	Describes how content is positioned horizontally in a container.
	AlignmentY	Describes how content is positioned vertically in a container.
	BrushMappingMode	Specifies the coordinate system used by a Brush.
	CaptureState	Describes the current operation state for device capture and a capture source.
	ColorInterpolationMode	Determines how the colors in a gradient are interpolated.
	ContentKeyType	Represents the content key type.
	FillRule	Specifies how the intersecting areas of PathFigure objects contained in a Geometry are combined to form the area of the Geometry.
	GradientSpreadMethod	Specifies how to draw the gradient outside a gradient brush's gradient vector or space.
	LogSource	Indicates the reason that a media log was generated.
	MediaElementState	Defines the potential states of a MediaElement object.
	MediaSampleAttributeKeys	This enumeration is used in a dictionary of attributes for media samples.
	MediaSourceAttributesKeys	Describes the media source.
	MediaStreamAttributeKeys	This enumeration is used in a dictionary of attributes for media streams.
	MediaStreamSourceDiagnosticKind	Describes the type of diagnostic information used by the media.
	MediaStreamType	Enumeration that specifies the type of stream.
	PenLineCap	Describes the shape at the end of a line or segment.
	PenLineJoin	Describes the shape that joins two lines or segments.
	PixelFormatType	Describes format information that reports the graphics format of individual pixels of the video format.
	SampleAllocationMode	Provides values for specifying how the camera video buffer is maintained on Windows Phone.
	Stretch	Describes how content is resized to fill its allocated space.
	StyleSimulations	Describes the simulation style of a font.
	SweepDirection	Specifies the direction an elliptical arc is drawn.
	TextHintingMode	Specifies whether text rendering is optimized for readability or for dynamic presentation.
	WaveFormatType	Reports the digital signal encoding format of an audio format.