Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

Effectively Using Icons and Images

Effective use of icons and images throughout your application can really enhance its visual appeal. Designing quality icons is really the job of a graphics designer, but if you don't have the budget for a graphics designer, there is still the viable and relatively inexpensive option of purchasing a stock icon library. Most libraries come as raster files, such as .png files, although some companies are starting to include, or sell separately, the original vector images.

Note While .png files work perfectly well in Silverlight, in some instances, you may prefer to use vector (XAML#8211;based) images instead. Vector ...