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Windows 7 taskbar buttons are drawn on a shaded background. The color shade somehow reacts on where the mouse is over the button.
I’d like to use such buttons in my application. How can i do that ?
The effect is called “Color Hot-track”. It does not seem that there is a dedicated API for that. There are some notes in a developer blog about it:
I found some source code from Rudi Grobler though doing a similar thing:
Make your WPF buttons color hot-track!