Skinning

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CJ Taylor

I've been googling this for awhile, but can't seem to find anything really
solid on skinning a windows forms app. I know how to skin the internal
stuff but would like to see an example of stuff like the titlebar and
pushbuttons, etc...

Thanks,
CJ
 
While not exactly related, there is a great article on the ASP.NET portion
of the MSDN site that shows how to skin web controls. It would be a good
resource in extending controls, regardless, as it shows how to set up
controls with both a control (for UI) and inheritance. Using the same
principles, you should be able to get a Windows Forms app skinned, once you
find the right objects in the framework.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Hey Greg,

Much appreciated on the ASP.NET part, unfortunatly, I know how to do that.
(ASP.NET skinning is a lot easier).

I read a bunch of interesting articles this weekend on skinning windows
forms that helped out some. Particularly using the ChalkTalk example on
MSDN provided some interesting info.

I remember in VB6 to override the controlbox and title bar required
extensive API work, but now with transparency/opacity, there are a lot more
options availible. And makes life a lot easier. =)

I'll keep everyon eposted on more progress I make on it...

-CJ
 
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