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Addition of vista look (title bar, border) in xp for win forms

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    Hi, wanted to find out if anyone has some details of doing getting a vista look in a form but running under xp in vb or c#. I had bookmarked a link sometime back and lost if after I had to reformat my harddisk. The link was, however, not a codeproject link. Note sure if this is the right place to post... Thanks..

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      Hi, wanted to find out if anyone has some details of doing getting a vista look in a form but running under xp in vb or c#. I had bookmarked a link sometime back and lost if after I had to reformat my harddisk. The link was, however, not a codeproject link. Note sure if this is the right place to post... Thanks..

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      Very bad UI design practice, requires much hooking and will never be perfect. I advise you to just use the XP look.

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        Very bad UI design practice, requires much hooking and will never be perfect. I advise you to just use the XP look.

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        Why is it bad design... how about a custom control? I tried creating a custom control with 5 panel, 4 for the border and one in the center. I used Graphics copyfromscreen and drew the image of the screen behind the 4 border panels on the panels.. and it looks ok.. any suggestions..?

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          Why is it bad design... how about a custom control? I tried creating a custom control with 5 panel, 4 for the border and one in the center. I used Graphics copyfromscreen and drew the image of the screen behind the 4 border panels on the panels.. and it looks ok.. any suggestions..?

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          Nothing breaks Microsoft's UI guidelines more then things like this. I advise you to read them before making a UI. User Experience Guidelines[^]

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            Nothing breaks Microsoft's UI guidelines more then things like this. I advise you to read them before making a UI. User Experience Guidelines[^]

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            Thanks... I'll look into it....:thumbsup:

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