c# - Creating custom forms in WPF?

Question

I'm currently learning WPF. I really am enjoying it so far. I love how easy it is to make great looking apps, and would like to create an app that has a custom window border. I would like for it to look something like this:

I know I could just easily change the Window type to not have a boarder and go from there, but that seems to much like WinForms. Wouldn't it be better to just create a class that derived from Window and styled it? If so how can I do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Here's a great article on customizing Window "chrome" with WPF:

Custom Window Chrome in WPF

It is accompanied by a Code Gallery project from which you can download the code:

WPF Chrome