"Shaped Form" with soft drop shadow, translucent colours -- using WPF

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Update 25 July 2013: Please see post #5 below.




If you use VB2008+ it's not all that hard to conjure up a free-floating image with luscious drop shadows like my pet ghost above. In fact it's not really a Form but a WPF window. Even if you have never learned any WPF you should be able do it with any image with a transparent background or with semi-transparent colours. For the moment you'll have to find your own image to use (I'll see if I can post some example images later but I'm not giving my ghost away). Here's how to do it in 10 easy steps.

Edit: see Post #5 for an improved and slightly shorter procedure. It also has an image with partial transparency which you can download to use for testing purposes.


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