title: Drop shadow effect in Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime?
body: <p>I'm looking for a way to add a <code>Drop Shadow Effect</code> to the multiple kind of elements in my Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime (not Silverlight!) application. The main problem is that.. there's no offical API for it. The main problem is that I need to mimic this effect not only to the basic shapes (like rectangle or a line), but also a path, like here: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XTppX.png" alt="Taken from question /4519243/path-with-broken-shadow-effect "></p>
  
  <p>Picture is borrowed from this question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4519243/path-with-broken-shadow-effect">path-with-broken-shadow-effect</a> - I hope the owner won't mind ;) Now, he has achieved this effect because it was done in WPF. I'm working on a Universal App (so WinRT), and there's no Effects extension. </p>
  
  <p>I've searched the web multiple times, and found some kind of workarounds, but they all miss something. For example this one: </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Simple-Xaml-Drop-Shadows-in-Silverlight-2.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Simple-Xaml-Drop-Shadows-in-Silverlight-2.aspx</a> &lt;- I can't work on <code>Canvas</code>, the content has to be a <code>Grid</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Do you any idea how can I achieve satisfying results on faking Drop Shadow Effect in Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime? </p>