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Vista GUI in Visual C# Express?

Hey,

In Visual C# 2005 Express, can you make your application look like a Vista application
with the black bars and the transparancy? If so, where would I download the tool from?

Thanks :o)

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Nov 17 '05 #1
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Zack,

No, you can not. The only way you could do this is if you handled the
painting the window yourself. The appearance of applications in vista is a
result of the default rendering of your app on Vista. In other words, you
would have you run your app on Vista to get render the window in that
manner, or draw the frame custom yourself.

Hope this helps.
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Hey,

In Visual C# 2005 Express, can you make your application look like a Vista
application
with the black bars and the transparancy? If so, where would I download
the tool from?

Thanks :o)

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Zack Whittaker
Microsoft Beta (Windows Server R2 Beta Mentor)
» ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.cjb.net
» MSBlog on ResDev: http://msblog.resdev.net
» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
not
of my employer, best friend, mother or cat. Let's be clear on that one!

Nov 17 '05 #2

Get the VS 2005 beta 2 and install the WinFX SDK.

Nov 17 '05 #3

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