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Remember this syntax from the early days of Avalon\/WPF\/XAML? <Rectangle Width="300" Height="200" Fill="HorizontalGradient Blue White" > <\/Rectangle> Very simple — easy to create Gradient Brush. But, it was removed from Avalon\/WPF in part due to it’s challenge for tools (parsing, etc.). 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