Drop shadow in Winforms Controls?

Question

is there a way to add a drop shadow to controls?

are there any controls out there with this feature?

Answer 1

There is in WPF if you can stretch to using that instead, I don't believe there is an alternative in Windows Forms due to the limited capabilities of GDI+.

This article might be of interest if you're after something simple (and for rectangular controls!)

Answer 2

You have to overwrite the CreateParamsproperty like this:

private const int CS_DROPSHADOW = 0x00020000;
protected override CreateParams CreateParams
{
    get
    {
        // add the drop shadow flag for automatically drawing
        // a drop shadow around the form
        CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams;
        cp.ClassStyle |= CS_DROPSHADOW;
        return cp;
    }
}