Pathetic

well i have been quite new in VB envoirnment n have been a JAVA programmer for 3 yrs, i was quite happy with the Pluggable Look n Feel of Swing, but as far Vb is concerned its quite pathetic same old windows look n feel :(
can ne one pls suggest me how can i change the defaul look n feel of vb with some activex or something

change the background, make it abstract, make graphical buttons, add rolling techniques...

You mean for the Vb IDE...Personally I like it :D

Try Tools--->Options

well i dunno y ppl still like that look n feel
but doin wat i have been suggested is not enough .. i mean i cud have done dat maself, i need some kool effects like we can put in java programs like changing the window GUI to look like Apple GUI.

Are you talking about an app created in VB, or about the VB IDE?

Woka

duh !
common man how can i change the vb ide itself, offcourse am talking about an app created in vb

Look at the API

I'm sure that after a few years of non-runtime programming you could easily transform the look and feel of any application.

;)

well if u want to give to your application a cool... look then u can even use an ActiveX control that is known as VbSkinner..... just google it... ull get more info

For cool UI stuff see ww.vbAccelerator.com
They have tools which will do what you want.

Woof

that link wont work in IE as far as I knw
use this
http://www.vbaccelerator.com

There are all sorts of things you an do with Forms using APIs as well.

My favorite is making a round form. I think it looks very cool when used as an About box.

Can u post an example of ya about form hack?

Woka

ya buddy
i got vbskinner looks good
n if u can pls mail a sample round form n how to go about doing this using the APIs.