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DropShadow for WPF Borderless Window

marcel ethan 9867 18 Jul 2013
Hi !

I have a WPF Window with WindowStyle set to none. Is there some way I can force this window to drop a shadow (like the one you get when WindowStyle is not none)? I don't want to set AllowTransparency to true, because it affects the performance. And I also don't want to disable hardware rendering (I read somewhere that transparency performs better with it disabled).

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marcel ethan
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Updated 18 Jul 2013

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shreesh chandra shukla
shreesh chandra shukla 18 Jul 2013
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Solution!

I have a WPF Window with WindowStyle set to none. Is there some way I can force this window to drop a shadow (like the one you get when WindowStyle is not none)? I don't want to set AllowTransparency to true, because it affects the performance. And I also don't want to disable hardware rendering (I read somewhere that transparency performs better with it disabled).

Answer 8:-

I made this from XAML code. Try this, too:

<Window x:Class="CustomWPFWindowShaddow.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="215" Width="525" ResizeMode="NoResize" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" WindowStyle="None" AllowsTransparency="True">
    <Grid>
        <Border BorderBrush="#FF006900" BorderThickness="3" Height="157" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="12,12,0,0" Name="border1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="479" Background="#FFCEFFE1" CornerRadius="20, 20, 20, 20">
            <Border.BitmapEffect>
                <DropShadowBitmapEffect Color="Black" Direction="320" ShadowDepth="10" Opacity="0.5" Softness="5" />
            </Border.BitmapEffect>
            <TextBlock Height="179" Name="textBlock1" Text="Hello, this is a beautiful DropShadow WPF Window Example." FontSize="40" TextWrapping="Wrap" TextAlignment="Center" Foreground="#FF245829" />
        </Border>
    </Grid>
    <Window.Background>
        <SolidColorBrush />
    </Window.Background>
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