Hyperlink in Silverlight

</HyperlinkButton.Background>

<HyperlinkButton.Foreground>

<LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0,0" EndPoint="1,1" >

<GradientStop Color="Orange" Offset="0.25" />

<GradientStop Color="Green" Offset="1.0" />

</LinearGradientBrush>

</HyperlinkButton.Foreground>

The new HyperlinkButton looks like Figure 2.

Figure 2

Setting Image as Background of a HyperlinkButton

To set an image as background of a HyperlinkButton, we can set an image as the Background of the HyperlinkButton. The following code snippet sets the background of a HyperlinkButton to an image.

<HyperlinkButton.Background>

<ImageBrush ImageSource="dock.jpg" />

</HyperlinkButton.Background>

The new output looks like Figure 3.

Figure 3

Accessing and Setting HyperlinkButton Properties Dynamically

There are two ways to access a HyperlinkButton control dynamically from code. First, you can set a name of the control and use it like any other control. The following code snippet creates a Hyperlink button and sets its name to HomeLink.

<HyperlinkButton Width="50.5" Height="18" x:Name="HomeLink"

Content="HOME" Foreground="#FF383836"

FontWeight="Bold" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="125.5,102,0,0"

VerticalAlignment="Top" GotFocus="HyperlinkButton_GotFocus"

MouseEnter="HyperlinkButton_MouseEnter"

MouseLeave="HyperlinkButton_MouseLeave"/>

Second way to access a control by using the event handler.

Let's set foreground property of a Hyperlink button dynamically on mouse over and mouse leave. I am going to change the foreground property to green on mouse over and back to gray again when mouse is not over.

The following code snippet shows how to set the foreground color in both ways.

private void HyperlinkButton_MouseEnter(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)

{

HomeLink.Foreground = new System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush(Colors.Green);

//HyperlinkButton btn = (HyperlinkButton)sender;

//btn.Foreground = new System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush(Colors.Green);

}

private void HyperlinkButton_MouseLeave(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)

{

HomeLink.Foreground = new System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush(Colors.Gray);

//HyperlinkButton btn = (HyperlinkButton)sender;

//btn.Foreground = new System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush(Colors.Gray);

}

Summary

In this article, I discussed how we can create a HyperlinkButton control in Silverlight and C#. We also saw how we can format a HyperlinkButton by setting its background, and foreground properties. After that, we saw you to set an image as the background of a HyperlinkButton.