How to get “glass” into your application using WPF or WinForms
The great thing about working at a company the size of Microsoft is that sometimes people get things done that you wanted to do before you get around to it. In this case – some folks on our evangelism and SDK teams have written some really slick samples for how to get “glass” into your application, in a similar fashion to what you see in Internet Explorer 7+, Office 12, and Windows Media Player 11 on Windows Vista.
Tim Sneath’s walk-through of adding glass to a Windows Forms application
Adam Nathan’s example of Aero Glass inside a WPF Window
Happy coding!