Create professional graphics for your WPF and Silverlight applications with almost any 2D or 3D drawing application.

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With state of the art converters it is possible to convert 2D and 3D graphics from some of most commonly used file formats into XAML. XAML created from svg and metafiles can be used in WPF and Silverlight applications. 3D objects from 3ds file can be converted into XAML for WPF 3D.

The available importer libraries can be used to import svg, metafiles and 3ds files directly into the WPF applications.

The following tools and libraries are available:

WPF 3D

		Ab3d.PowerToys is the ultimate framework for WPF 3D. It provides advanced cameras, camera controllers to rotate and move the camera with the mouse or control panel, 3D objects (Sphere, Box, Cylinder, etc.), 3D Lines, 3D Text and simplified mouse event handling on 3D objects.
		Viewer3ds and Ab3d.Reader3ds for reading 3ds files Import 3ds files - one of the most commonly used file format for 3D objects. Create 3D models in almost any 3D modeling application and use them in your WPF application. Application with 3ds support: 3D Studio MAX®, Maya®, Blender (free), more in Links Online free 3ds libraries: ShareCG, 3D Kingdom, Turbosquid, more in Links

2D vector graphics for WPF and Silverlight

		ViewerSvg and Ab2d.ReaderSvg for reading svg files. Import vector drawings saved in svg or svgz files - svg is one of the most commonly used file format for storing 2D vector images. Almost all vector drawing programs support saving into svg file. Application with svg support: Adobe Illustrator®, CorelDRAW®, Microsoft Visio®, etc. Online free svg clipart library: Open Clip Art Library
		Paste2Xaml and Ab2d.ReaderWmf for reading metafiles. Read Windows metafiles (wmf), Enhanced Metafiles (emf) or get matafile objects from clipboard - simply copy the drawing in almost any 2D application and simply paste it into xaml. Copy graphics from: Microsoft Excel®, Word®, Autocad, etc. Online free metafile clipart library: Microsoft Office free Clip Arts
		The Ultimate ZoomPanel control for zooming and panning. ZoomPanel is a WPF custom controls library that contains controls that provide powerful zooming and panning capabilities to any WPF application. The controls can be fully customizable to provide functionality for almost any zooming and panning scenario.

Samples

All the libraries come with lots of samples that demonstrate various uses of the libraries and exported xaml. The samples demonstrate the possibilities that WPF brings to 2D and 3D graphics.

The following are a few screenshots from the samples (more sample screenshots can be found on products pages):

Silverlight tutorials

The following Silverlight tutorials show how to use the exported xaml in Silverlight applications:

		Silverlight Excel  How to convert an excel graph with Paste2Xaml to a Silverlight application. To show the power of Silverlight we add a starup animation and a dynamically showing graph data on moving the mouse over graph's bars. The tutorial can be also used for WPF applications.
		Silverlight EU Countries How to convert a map of EU countries in svg file to a Silverlight application with ViewerSvg. The tutorial will also show how to read the data from xml file and how to use data binding. The application will show the basic data about the country that is selected with the mouse. There is also a slider that shows when the countries were joining the EU.