How do you determine if WPF is using Hardware or Software Rendering?

Question

I\'m benchmarking a WPF application on various platforms and I need an easy way to determine if WPF is using hardware or software rendering.

I seem to recall a cal

Answer 1

Based on the RenderingTier links, here is some code:

        logger.InfoFormat("WPF Tier = {0}",RenderCapability.Tier / 0x10000);
        RenderCapability.TierChanged +=
            (sender, args) => logger.InfoFormat("WPF Tier Changed to {0}",
                                                RenderCapability.Tier / 0x10000);

I'm still testing and working on this. See future edits/answers for what I find.