[2005] Top of explorer... help..

hi can some one tell me how to change the look of the minimize maximize and the close button tab as i want the design..?


to hide its normal looking and me add my extra design..

i want to know how to make my own window design

you can remove the buttons with the controlbox property.
if you want to draw your own buttons heres an example

nope what i meaned was a new design of window....


not just the icons or buttons i want 2 make my owen window and use it in application how can i do that

what do you want your application to do?
you just add a form to your project + add controls to the form.

yah 2 give my style to the applications...
here is an example here see this has the vista looking style..
i downloaded trial and tested

im using xp but the application had the vista style


i want 2 add same for design as a vista style

on the window starting from top part ending with a design of status bad..

hope u uenderstood me

sorry my english not soo good

you didn't upload an image or an example.

you might find that vista styles are specific to vista, but you can make your form so it has a vista look + style in xp.

upload the image of the form style you want + i'll try to help

here is the exaMPLE how it looks like this is what i meaned2 change the looking of window..


2 make my own design

A common recommendation for this type of thing is to hid the border and draw your own. That can work although it's a bit of a hack. If you want to change the appearance of the non-client area then that's exactly what you should do. .NET doesn't provide direct access to the non-client area of a form though, so it requires unmanaged code. Here's a good run down of the "proper" way.

That said though, I'll point out again that a person asking how to tart up their UI is the person with a very low post count. UI's might be the most visible aspect of an application but skinning is a long way down the list of aspects that are important to an application. I recommend to anyone and everyone that you learn to code to a reasonably competent level before worrying about creating fancy interfaces.