Trouble customizing a frame in WPF

Hello-

I am doing some testing for an upcoming project and have run into some
trouble. I have a frame tag with the source set to "http://live.com" as
a test. However, I am unable to affect the opacity, or transform the
tag at all.

<Frame Canvas.Top="0" Canvas.Left="0" Height="420" Width="600"
ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="False" Source="http://live.com"></Frame>

any help would be greatly appreciated, as it seems I can't do anything
to the frame!

Thank you.

Chris

Visual elements that host content which isn't WPF related, such as the
frame holding HTML don't support most of the translations or custom WPF
effects. Under the covers, the frame is hosting the IE web browser
object to render the HTML. Most translations and effects rely on the
composition engine which puts things together in memory and then
displays it to the underlying single HWND for the window. The IE web
browser control creates its own HWND and so WPF simply cannot do its
magic in this case.

This problem isn't unique to Frame, it also happens with any embedded
Windows Forms control, ActiveX control, etc.

You might check out the RSS sample Microsoft posted recently - it has
some code in it to parse and render HTML natively in WPF IIRC. You
could use something similar to display your HTML content and get the
effects you desire.

Good luck,
Mark Smith

Visual elements that host content which isn't WPF related, such as the
frame holding HTML don't support most of the translations or custom WPF
effects. Under the covers, the frame is hosting the IE web browser
object to render the HTML. Most translations and effects rely on the
composition engine which puts things together in memory and then
displays it to the underlying single HWND for the window. The IE web
browser control creates its own HWND and so WPF simply cannot do its
magic in this case.

This problem isn't unique to Frame, it also happens with any embedded
Windows Forms control, ActiveX control, etc.

You might check out the RSS sample Microsoft posted recently - it has
some code in it to parse and render HTML natively in WPF IIRC. You
could use something similar to display your HTML content and get the
effects you desire.

Good luck,
Mark Smith