How to draw Windows 7 taskbar like Shaded Buttons

Question

Windows 7 taskbar buttons are drawn on a shaded background. The color shade somehow reacts on where the mouse is over the button.

I\'d like to use such buttons in my

Answer 1

The effect is called "Color Hot-track". It does not seem that there is a dedicated API for that. There are some notes in a developer blog about it:

I found some source code from Rudi Grobler though doing a similar thing:

Make your WPF buttons color hot-track!