Question

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.

Answer 1

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!