How do I add the Aero white glow behind a control in WPF?
I mean the glow like in a window's caption bar in Vista/7.
This unrelated question seems to have the answer...
Outer bevel effect on text in WPF
I just needed a rectangle behind my text block...
<Rectangle Height="{Binding ElementName=textBlock1, Path=ActualHeight}" HorizontalAlignment="{Binding ElementName=textBlock1, Path=HorizontalAlignment}" Margin="{Binding ElementName=textBlock1, Path=Margin}" VerticalAlignment="{Binding ElementName=textBlock1, Path=VerticalAlignment}" Width="{Binding ElementName=textBlock1, Path=ActualWidth}" Fill="White" Opacity="0.5">
<Rectangle.Stroke>
<SolidColorBrush />
</Rectangle.Stroke>
<Rectangle.Effect>
<BlurEffect Radius="10" KernelType="Gaussian" />
</Rectangle.Effect>
</Rectangle>
This is gonna do the trick for any control when you replace all the "textBlock"
s in the code!
And it looks exactly the same as the aero glow!