Drawing things on a Canvas

Question

How would I draw something on a Canvas in C# for Windows Phone?

Okay, let me be a little more clear.

Say the user taps his finger down at 386,43 on the canvas. (the ca

Answer 1

There are various ways of doing this. Depending on the nature of the red dot, you could make it a UserControl. For a basic circle, you can simply handle your canvas' ManipulationStarted event.

private void myCanvas_ManipulationStarted(object sender, ManipulationStartedEventArgs e)
{

            Ellipse el = new Ellipse();
            el.Width = 10;
            el.Height = 10;
            el.Fill = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red);
            Canvas.SetLeft(el, e.ManipulationOrigin.X);
            Canvas.SetTop(el, e.ManipulationOrigin.Y);
            myCanvas.Children.Add(el);
}