title: How can I achieve Aero's glass effect cross platform?
body: <h3>Duplicate:</h3>
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  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/484130/is-it-possible-to-achieve-the-aero-glass-look-on-xp">Is it possible to achieve the “Aero Glass” look on XP?</a></p>
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  <p>If I use Winforms and I write a win32 application with it, I can see the Aero glass effects in Vista but not in XP.</p>
  <p>How could I achieve the same look across different platforms? I am using WPF.</p>
  <p>As a side question, did Microsoft write the Aero glass effects using WPF? If so, shouldn't the glass effect be the default WPF look on the other platforms?</p>