iPhone like red badge notification in a WPF project?

Question

I have a C# WPF project which generates daily and weekly reports automatically. I want to inform the user when new reports are available, so I thought of a badge like on the

Answer 1

I recently had the same requirement, and quickly knocked this UserControl together. It uses a short animation to draw the user's attention to the badge.

Take a look at "Big Nick's" blog to see some elegant code for applying this UserControl to another UIElement as an Adorner (exactly what a 'badge' is!): http://blog.bignickolson.com/2009/10/15/overlaying-controls-in-wpf-with-adorners/

(Thanks Nick!)