Using the BorderThickness property within a button

I am attempting with no luck to change the BorderThickness within a button. Is this not supported or is there a different way to do this. I am working with the Orcas Technology Preview (Cider) released in May 2006.
<ButtonWidth="200"Height="50"BorderThickness="6"Content="Button5" />
It seems to work fine on a straight border such as:
<BorderBorderThickness="4"/>
Ultimately what I am attempting to do is to add a custom border to the button with an tiled image to give certain buttons a new look, while keeping others defaulted. Similiar to what a MatteBorder call gave me in Java.

weldej1 wrote:

> I am attempting with no luck to change the BorderThickness within a
> button. Is this not supported or is there a different way to do this.
> I
> am working with the Orcas Technology Preview (Cider) released in May
> 2006.
> <Button Width=\"200\" Height=\"50\" BorderThickness=\"6\"
> Content=\"Button5\" />
> It seems to work fine on a straight border such as:
> <Border BorderThickness=\"4\"/>
> Ultimately what I am attempting to do is to add a custom border to the
> button with an tiled image to give certain buttons a new look, while
> keeping others defaulted. Similiar to what a MatteBorder call gave me
> in Java.

There are better ways to do this in WPF. As a matter of fact, have a look
at this post[1] in the forums that I responded to yesterday that shows you
some of the power WPF control templating provides. In your case, you need
to take what I did there to the next level by designing a re-usable Style
that you can then apply to the buttons which you want to have your custom
look and feel.

HTH,
Drew

[1] http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...78693&SiteID=1
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