XAML Geometry Path Markup Syntax Summary

WPF/Silverlight has quite a nice syntax for defining paths in XAML.  The documentation explaining the syntax is quite verbose, which is a good thing, but i wrote this post to provide an at-a-glance summary of the various components:

Letter	Description	Syntax	Example
M	Move	M startPoint	M 0,0
L	Line	L endPoint	L 20,30
H	Horizontal line	H x-coordinate	H 90
V	Vertical line	V y-coordinate	V 90
C	Cubic Bezier curve	C controlPoint1 controlPoint2 endPoint	C 1,2 2,4 3,2
Q	Quadratic Bezier curve	Q controlPoint endPoint	Q 1,2 3,2
S	Smooth cubic Bezier curve	S controlPoint2 endPoint	S 1,2 3,2
T	Smooth quadratic Bezier curve	T controlPoint endPoint	T 1,2 3,2
A	Elliptical arc	A size rotationAngle isLargeArcFlag sweepDirectionFlag endPoint	A 2 40 1 1 2,2
Z	Close the current figure	Z	Z

Notes

• When sequentially entering more than one command of the same type, you can omit the duplicate command entry, eg - L 100,200 300,400 is equivalent to L 100,200 L 300,400
• An uppercase command letter denotes absolute values
• A lowercase command letter denotes relative values: the control points for that segment are relative to the end point of the preceding example
• Instead of a standard numerical, you can also use the following special values: Infinity, –Infinity, NaN
• You may also use scientific notation, eg - +1.e17