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Make pretty forms

Please take a look at this screenshot.

http://www.hms.com/images/sep4-full-recent-messages.gif

I want to know how I can make menus for my own programs that look like the ones on the left hand side of this screen shot.

For the points: a vivid tutorial or sample code.

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Erick37

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Shane Russell

http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/forms/vbidexp.htm

VB.NET article from MSDN Site :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchUsingWindowsXPVisualStylesWithControlsOnWindowsForms.asp

PAQ's

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20464670/how-do-I-make-my-visual-basic-6-program-appear-like-windows-xp.html?query=how+do+I+make+my+visual+basic+6+program+appear+like+windows+xp&clearTAFilter=true

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20645145/Creating-a-XP-style-to-my-VB-project.html?query=how+do+I+make+my+visual+basic+6+program+appear+like+windows+xp&clearTAFilter=true

I hope that helps :)

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Eric37:

I am getting 'Error runtime 0' with that OCX. It looks like a great control, and I would like to be able to get it to work.

also, when I downloaded the source, and ran it in VB's IDE, I get" Run-time error '440': Method 'Show' of object 'frmTestExplorerBar' failed.

This is after I downloaded and registered a required OCX, vbalIl6.ocx

Any thoughts?

DrDamnit

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gecko_au2003:

Thanks, but I already know about visual styles and manifest files.

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DrDamnit

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I needed that and these type libraries:

vbACOMTLB.tlb
OLEGUIDS.TLB

Thanks!