title: WPF Element.Effect, stop affecting child elements?
body: <p>I've applied an effect to the border of this template. The effect is then applied to every element within, so I get rather more dropshadows than I care for. Is there a way to disable the effect? You can see I added a blur effect within, but then I just end up with blurry drop shadows :)</p>
  
  <pre><code>DataTemplate  x:Key="TestInstanceViewModelTemplate"&gt;
      &lt;Border BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="#FF0909B4"&gt;
          &lt;Border.Effect&gt;
              &lt;DropShadowEffect/&gt;
          &lt;/Border.Effect&gt;
          &lt;DockPanel&gt;
              &lt;DockPanel.Effect&gt;
                  &lt;BlurEffect/&gt;
              &lt;/DockPanel.Effect&gt;
              &lt;Grid DockPanel.Dock="Top"&gt;
                  &lt;Grid.ColumnDefinitions&gt;
                      &lt;ColumnDefinition MinWidth="50" Width="1*" /&gt;
                      &lt;ColumnDefinition MinWidth="50" Width="1*"/&gt;
                  &lt;/Grid.ColumnDefinitions&gt;
                  &lt;Button Command="{Binding Path=StartCommand}" Content="Start" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" /&gt;
                  &lt;Button Command="{Binding Path=StopCommand}" Content="Stop" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0"/&gt;
              &lt;/Grid&gt;
              &lt;WpfTestingClient:StatusControl DockPanel.Dock="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"&gt;&lt;/WpfTestingClient:StatusControl&gt;
          &lt;/DockPanel&gt;
      &lt;/Border&gt;
  &lt;/DataTemplate&gt;
  </code></pre>