In Silverlight you can do this: private Color GetNewColor(Color colorParameter) { Color newColor; Color newcolor = Color.FromArgb(0, 255, 10, 10); return newColor; } You can read this[^] too. Regards Christian Amado MCITP | MCTS | MOS | MTA Olimpia ☆ ★★★ Please mark as answer, if it helps.

Thanks for sharing those links. Meanwhile I sorted out my requirement using 'INotifyPropertyChanged'.

Your last line of answer SledgeHammer01 wrote: but I don't think thats whats going on here since xaml often references code behind did the trick. As a newbie i couldn't think of that. I referenced a class in Xaml theme and it worked as I wanted... Many thanks!! :)

Thanks for the reply, but that does not solve my purpose :(

Thanks! :)

This [^]could help you as well. The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.

Yess!! :)

That's not, actually, a good suggestion - while you can create a WPF browser app, it's not going to run on certain browsers, and not on a Mac or Linux box. This limits the target audience who can view what he's done. "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes. My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

Nope :) Face it, any time you are bypassing the native rendering engine the OS uses you are going to take a performance hit. I don't care what anyone says. This is why Vista and 7 are 'NEW'. They were written with the intent to support this new look and feel so the OS internals, all the way down to the rendering engines, were optimised towards that purpose intentionally. On older OSes if you turn off native rendering and do all your own window drawing in your code you are always going to incur a performance hit because you are essentially moving that code up a layer, or at very least adding cycles in the way to signal an alternate rendering routine. LinkedIn[^] | Blog[^] | Twitter[^]

Yup - that looks like it should do it. "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes. My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

Yeah! That could be one way. It helps. Thanks!!