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 :