Why you cant use of COleDate?

Alternatively, you can derive a class from CButton, implement a static method RegisterClass that will retrieve the BUTTON class info using GetClassInfo(Ex), then replace the class name with your class name, window procedure with yours and also the class hCursor with the desired cursor. A similar technique can be found in MSDN for custom dialog classes.

ATL buttons use system colors. Your best option is to create an owner-draw button, but you have to draw all states.