There are some very interesting posts I missed the last days. Since .NET 3.5 SP1 perfectly integrates WPF with DirectX, a number of cool effects can finally be applied: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPFPixelShader.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/05/12/introduction-to-writing-effects.aspx http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx Some of those effects were on Dax Pandhi’s wish list for WPF (http://blog.nukeation.com/post/My-wishlist-for-the-next-release-of-WPF.aspx) for quite some time. More importantly, the integration of WPF [...]