Drop Shadow Effect in WPF

If you want to apply the drop shadow effect to your UI Element:

Create a System.Windows.Media.Effects.DropShadowBitmapEffect element, and assign it to the BitmapEffect property of the element you want to have a shadow. Use the Color property of the DropShadowBitmapEffect element to define the color of the shadow and the ShadowDepth property to define the size of the shadow on the target element.

• Open a new project in Visual Studio 2010 and named it as "DropShadowEffects".
  
  
   
• Draw an Ellipse of height= width=150.
  
  
   
• Fill the ellipse with an Image:
  
  <Ellipse.Fill>
       <ImageBrush ImageSource="bithday5.bmp" />           
  </Ellipse.Fill>
  
  
   
• Now Write code as under to fill the Ellipse with an Image and to show the Shadow effect:
  
  <Window x:Class="DropShadowEffect.MainWindow"
         xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"|       xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
          Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">

           <Ellipse Height="150" Width="150" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="1">
              <Ellipse.BitmapEffect>
                  <DropShadowBitmapEffect Color="Black" Direction="-50"
                      ShadowDepth="40" Softness=".7" />
              </Ellipse.BitmapEffect>           <Ellipse.Fill>
                  <ImageBrush ImageSource="bithday5.bmp" />
              </Ellipse.Fill>
          </Ellipse>
  </Window>
   

• So the Output would be :