Hi Friends,

In my windows application in C#.NET 2005 i want to change the window title bar as well as status bar colors. I tried but directly no property is exposed so that i can easily assign the values to it.

I don't know how to do it and i am new to windows forms even i surfed in net most of the suggestions are given that it is not possible. Some code they have shown in CodePlex.com but i didn't understood where exactly we need ti implement in form load or else where....

And many of them are suggesting to do in WPF, since we have developing this application in c# .net 2005, again it will be rework for us.


Hope i will get any help from you guyz


thanks
Chetan

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Chetan

Hi Chetan VD,

Indeed there is no direct property we can set to change the color of the title bar. However, There are two ways we can try.

For the first way, we can trap the WMNCPaint event, and then draw our custom boarders.

For the second way, we can hide the default Boarder and completely draw it ourselves. In this case, we probably need to deal with some mouse events to achieve the function like the title bar. Such as, we can move the form when we drag the form header.

I know you probably have seen the code project in the CodePlex.com, but I don't know if you've seen the blog assosiating with it. I think the blog has a good explanation with the two ways.

If you have problems, please let us know which part you are not clear.

Best regards,
Bruce Zhou.

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