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

This is based on Chris1 answer, but this will stretch correctly when the text inside the badge is longer than one digit, I've also set the font to make it more consistent across Windows versions, changed the sizing a bit to compensate and added an outline around the badge.

I've also replaced DropShadowEffect with a Rectangle, this is because I can't use DropShadowEffect in my specific application, DropShadowEffect looks better but my Rectangle shadow is good enough, you can delete the shadow rectangle and use DropShadowEffect if you like.

  
    
  
  
    
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