I'm Envious of the nice ASP.NET gradient toolbars

[Dotnet Wanderer]

Hello Friends,

Its time for me to show how cool UI can be in .NET.

This is a call for help on how to create those beautiful looking gradient
tool bars like this site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups...amework.aspnet

I would appreciate any directions on how can I find information on these.

A lot of thanks in advance to asp.net gurus,

E.V.

[Karl Seguin]

Well, assuming they aren't simply using images, you can achieve this using
filters. In particular, the Gradient filter:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...s/gradient.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...er/filters.asp

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"Dotnet Wanderer" <Do************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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Hello Friends,

Its time for me to show how cool UI can be in .NET.

This is a call for help on how to create those beautiful looking gradient
tool bars like this site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups...amework.aspnet
I would appreciate any directions on how can I find information on these.

A lot of thanks in advance to asp.net gurus,

E.V.

[Derek Harmon]

"Dotnet Wanderer" <Do************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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This is a call for help on how to create those beautiful looking gradient
tool bars like this

Do you mean an HTML <table> tag with a class attribute that points to a
CSS class containing a style rule like,

background-image:url(./images/bgGradient.gif);

where bgGradient.gif is a 1-px wide strip with a vertical gradient fill?
Derek Harmon

[Derek Harmon]

"Karl Seguin" <karl REMOVE @ REMOVE openmymind REMOVEMETOO . ANDME net> wrote in message
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Well, assuming they aren't simply using images, you can achieve this using
filters. In particular, the Gradient filter

Always cool, but not very cross-browser compatible. :-)

Just for completeness, in IE 5 and later you can also use VML to
do gradient fills,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de.../multidemo.asp
Derek Harmon

[Scott M.]

A simple look at their source code shows:

<td id="msviRegionGradient1" width="50%"
style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gr adient(startColorStr='#FFFFFF',
endColorStr='#98B2E6', gradientType='1')"></td>
"Dotnet Wanderer" <Do************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:DA**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hello Friends,

Its time for me to show how cool UI can be in .NET.

This is a call for help on how to create those beautiful looking gradient
tool bars like this site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups...amework.aspnet

I would appreciate any directions on how can I find information on these.

A lot of thanks in advance to asp.net gurus,

E.V.

[Scott M.]

Here's an interesting page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/s...o/DXTidemo.htm
"Dotnet Wanderer" <Do************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:DA**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hello Friends,

Its time for me to show how cool UI can be in .NET.

This is a call for help on how to create those beautiful looking gradient
tool bars like this site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups...amework.aspnet

I would appreciate any directions on how can I find information on these.

A lot of thanks in advance to asp.net gurus,

E.V.