window-chrome

I'm using WindowChrome to restyle my window in an easy fast way but the problem is there is flickering when resizing the window, especially when resizing from left to right. <Window x:Class="View.Settings" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" mc:Ignorable="d" Height="570" Width="800" WindowStartupLocation="CenterOwner" Background="{StaticResource DarkGrayBackground}" ResizeMode=

This one is bit bizarre. From a main window in wpf (on a button click), I am creating another STA Thread where I am showing a custom window. This custom window is applied with a style that uses the WindowChrome class from shell. I get an exception while calling the Show() method. Cannot access Freezable 'System.Windows.Shell.WindowChrome' across threads because it cannot be frozen. If I remove the WindowChrome setter, everything works just fine. What am I missing? I've already tried marking the window chrome as frozen, but in vain! A copy of the source is available here . Update: Forgot to

I am styling a Window, but I noticed this strange behaviour of WindowChrome (in .NET FW 4.0, from external Microsoft.Windows.Shell dll ). I set the WindowChrome with AllowTransparency = true and WindowStyle = None. If I set the WindowChrome's ResizeBorderThickness <= 7 everything works perfectly, but if I do ResizeBorderThickness="8" or more, when the Window is Maximized I can't drag it from the last top pixel near the top edge of the screen, and for each +1 exceeding 7 I must start dragging 1 pixel more down from the edge. This is annoying 'cause it disable a common behaviour when closing a