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How Can I Make a DropShadow?

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In my Borland days I could easily make a dropshadow by stacking two labels. I'd set the top (lighter colored text) label to transparent, then the bottom label with black text could be moved to just outline the top text making a dropshadow.

Is there a way to do this (without making a bitmap in a graphics program)?

BTW, I need this because I have a color-coded legend and there is no one background color that lets me read all the colored text.

Thanks,

Dennis

NDennisV Sunday, November 25, 2007 1:37 PM

Hi Dennis,

If you would like to make a dropshadow with C#, I strongly recommend you checking out this article about "Transparent drop shadow in C# (GDI+)" for reference - http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/TransparentDropShadowInCS.asp.

The trick is as follows: Using strategically placed and tiled pictures of a shadow, we can simulate a shadow effect. When transparent PNGs are used, it looks just like the real thing.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Ji Cheng Wang - MSFT Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:30 AM

Hi Dennis,

The trick is as follows: Using strategically placed and tiled pictures of a shadow, we can simulate a shadow effect. When transparent PNGs are used, it looks just like the real thing.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Ji Cheng Wang - MSFT Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:30 AM

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