WPF: How do I make a custom modal dialog flash?

Question

Normally when you open a Modal Dialog and try to click on it\'s parent window the Modal Dialog\'s titlebar flashes. When creating a custom, borderless, chromeless, window in

Answer 1

If you didn't exactly find what you're looking for, there is a workaround which involves not using a modal window at all.

Here's how you can do it:

1. create a user control named MainContentUC and put the contents of MainWindow in it

2. create another user control named MessageBoxUC and put the contents of your messagebox in it

3. add a boolean dependency property in MessageBoxUC named IsOpen (default=false)

4. write xaml code of your main window as follows:

This way when the MessageBoxUC is open it will block MainContentsUC from being clicked. and when you click on the back area (where color is set to #4FFF) the trigger runs the storyboard and it blinks.

if you have several windows you can implement different control templates and choose between them using a template selector. so instead of you will have