creating custom buttons with different shapes and colours

[steve_rm]

Hello, VS 2008 Our client wants to have a phone dialer application. So they want to have different buttons with different shapes and colours. To make it look more like a telephone dialer. They don't want to have the normal button look that are dragged on to the form. Is there any free third party controls that have the look and feel of different buttons. Is it possible to create these buttons yourself? Any good links to be able to do this? Many thanks, Steve

[netJP12L]

You may create a custom button class that is inherited from the button class. Then define your own paint method and draw button the way you want. You should look into GDI stuff for colouring and speicall effects. There are may ariticles on CP.