A Cool Control Template for WPF Button




JellyButton_Theme.XAML

Few days ago I happened to see this blog It shows a step by step instruction to create a nice glassy button in photoshop.
Here is what I tried in expression blend to customize(control template) a button with the same look in mind. I have used few ellipses and 2 grid panels to make this effect. There is a Trigger functioning on it to show the interactions of the Press and Release action.

Check out the XAML file to see the WPF button in action. You can open the XAML file in Internet Explorer if you are running in Vista.
UPDATE : You can also check out my other blogs on Theme
Check out the Silverlight version of the above here

Comments

Sameer C. Thiruthikad said…
That's so cute and cool. You are getting into the Designer's den?!
Thursday, July 10, 2008 at 10:25:00 PM PDT
Unknown said…
Jobi, the buttons look great! Thanks for the link.
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 2:01:00 AM PDT
Anonymous said…
Can i Have the feed pls for ur blog
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 10:06:00 PM PDT
Jobi Joy said…
You can get the feed on this link
http://jobijoy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 11:51:00 PM PDT
Anonymous said…
that is awesome, thanks so very much!
- ben
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 7:20:00 AM PDT
Harry said…
Cool buttons. It's really useful also.
However there is something wrong with the link. It seems to be dead.
Monday, April 6, 2009 at 1:27:00 AM PDT
darwin said…
amazing great, your creation really really amazing

Web templates at easy to download.
Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 10:48:00 PM PDT
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