If you write your own WPF custom controls, you are probably aware of how to go about adding theming support for the various Windows themes.  One of the more popular themes introduced in Windows Vista, and continued over to Windows 7, was the Aero theme.  This is all fine and dandy if your WPF custom controls are used in applications that only run on Vista and Windows 7, but what happens when you try to use them on Windows…

The last five weeks have been crazy for me!  The first week of June I was at TechEd, where I appeared on Channel 9 Visual Studio Toolbox, and where I found out that the Microsoft Patterns and Practices team recognized me as a P&P Champion.  The next week was spent traveling through New Orleans and various cities in Mississippi.  Then I actually got to go home for a week before heading off to San Francisco to attend the…