by kirupa | 19 August 2009
One of the new features introduced in Silverlight 3 is support for what are known as Effects (also known as pixel shaders or shader effects) that you have in WPF. In a nutshell, shader effects allow you to affect what you see on the screen in cool and interesting ways.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.kirupa.com/blend_silverlight/effects_blend.htm