A Tiled Image Brush for Silverlight

The Silverlight ImageBrush does not support the TileMode property that exists in WPF, and as a result there is no built in way to have tiled images as a background brush for your controls and styles.

The following control may be useful to you if you find yourself wanting to achieve the same things as a WPF tiled image brush.

You can grab the source here. It is a control that behaves like a Border control, except that it also has a TiledImageSource property that you can use to select an image resource from the project.

The TiledBGControl control (um, didn’t think too hard about naming it) is a viewless control, so you can change its default control template the same way you can for any other control. This is the structure of the default control template

Read more: Silverlight Scratchpad

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