Rich textbox and visual styles

Is there a way to make the rich textbox control behave like it should when using visual styles ?

(see picture)

http://www.pvp.no/vbw/rtbvisualstyles.jpg

According to several articles I've read you can do it with a manifest file. It seems that it is not easy to do otherwise even in .NET 2.0.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ndowsForms.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/do...sualstyles.asp

thanks for the input jmcilhinney :)

tried using manifest. ms say it should be possible (in the link you posted) but it is not.

sometimes i really hate ms :cry: