DevExpress has a WPF Metro Style Tile control - see their online demos & videos 
(I have been doing some research lately on this -but haven not purchased or 
implemented the control as yet).

Regards,

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 8:37 AM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: Blacklight and "metroising" a WPF app

Folks, a few years ago someone here pointed me to the 
Blacklight<http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/blacklight.silverlight/> Drag 
Dock Panel which I thought would quite simple and effective for creating a 
portal style arrival screen in an app. However, I had to de-style it to remove 
the ridiculous default glowing and hatching effects and weird colours so it was 
suitable for a real use. Sadly I discovered it had bugs in the min/max motion 
when clicking the arrows and I gave up on it. Then Blacklight 4.3 dropped WPF 
support and a lot of people were confused and upset.

The Drag Dock Panel was ahead of its time in a sense, as it had a metro/phone 
feel. We'd like a similar effect on the main screen of our WPF app where tiles 
show you what's available and clicking one will zoom into that feature, 
possibly pushing the other icons out of the way.

Does anyone know of a control/kit/technique for creating this effect? I don't 
want to waste a lot of time reproducing the effect manually if I can avoid it.

Thanks
Greg

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