Include the Windows.UI.Xaml.Shapes API

[ChrisCoble]

Please consider including some additional things besides the basic forms support for the initial release. This would allow far more interesting experiences.

Including the Windows.UI.Xaml.Shape API would of course need the support for brushes, pen's, etc.

[billhenn]

Yes this is a must-have.

[michael-hawker]

Yeah, it'd tie into the Windows.UI.Xaml.Media API as well to grab Transforms, Lines/Paths, and Brushes.

Like Composite/Matrix/Rotate/Scale/Skew/Translate Transform, SolidColorBrush, ImageBrush, and LinearGradiantBrush.

It'd be really nice to see RadialGradientBrush make a comeback as a ton of Silverlight and WPF graphics based projects used that brush for their vector graphics. It'd at least help make porting older projects to the standard easier.

[Scherlac]

Indeed I also uses Ellipse and Rectangle in Xaml. With some basic shape and creatively selected background we can do amazing things!