What is a good default background color for a WPF dialog box?

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Published on 2010-04-09T14:50:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 14:53 UTC
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None of the brushes in SystemColors seems to fit the bill, and IIRC, the OS theme beginning with Windows XP uses a gradient. Is there standard OS dialog box background brush or a way to tell WPF that the window is a dialog box and it should paint the background accordingly?

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