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tom - 07 Feb 2005 10:33 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone start me on applying XP themes to my application (vb.net
winforms), so I can use the themes like on xptheme.org.

thanx,
t

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 07 Feb 2005 12:52 GMT

"tom" <tom@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

> Can anyone start me on applying XP themes to my application (vb.net
> winforms), so I can use the themes like on xptheme.org.

Enabling Windows XP Visual Styles for Windows Forms applications
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=xpvisualstyles&lang=en>

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tom - 12 Feb 2005 17:39 GMT

Actually, what I'm looking for is how I can use my app to use a theme without
it having to be the currently used theme of the user, and without me having
to create my own custom controls to do this.

Something like Application.EnableVisualStyles() but with a parameter that
let's me specify which shellstyle.dll to use would be nice...
Also, I've seen *.msstyles files as xp themes, how could I implement these
in my app?

thanx,
t

> "tom" <tom@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> > Can anyone start me on applying XP themes to my application (vb.net
> > winforms), so I can use the themes like on xptheme.org.
>
> Enabling Windows XP Visual Styles for Windows Forms applications
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=xpvisualstyles&lang=en>

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