Creating An App Mainfest File For Comctl32 And Xp Visual Styles ?
Apr 19, 2011
I am using VB.Net 2008. I am using a 3rd party dll in my app that requires xp visual styles to be turned off, or that a manifest file be added to my app to re-direct comctl32.dll (link to 3rd party workaround:[URL]
I tried creating the manifest according to: [URL] This did not change the issue. Perhaps I did not add the manifest properly?
Here are the steps I tried:
1. Add xml file to app and name it MyApp.exe.manifest
2. Add the xml file to my resources.
The above did nothing so I removed it and then:
3. Add xml file to app and name it Comctl32.dll.manifiest
how to disable XP visual styles in VB?I unticked "Enable XP visual styles", but application still has XP visual style. I want to achieve that application will be in Windows Classic color scheme look. Basically the same what you can do in windows settings, but that`s for entire windows and I want it for my application only and default on every computer, where application will be installed.
I have a number of ActiveX controls which make use of consituent controls (edit boxes,combo boxes etc). I'm using these in a VB .Net 2005 project.When I run the application within the IDE, all the ActiveX controls display correctly with the XP visual styles.But when I run the built assembly, the ActiveX controls display without XP visual styles
I have created a VB.NET Class Library that exposes some COM Interop sub routines. These in turn show various forms that are contained within the Class Library. When the forms are shown from VB6 they do not inherit the visual styles of the operating system and act like VB6 controls.
I gather that this probably by design but is there some way to force/control visual styles manually in the .NET assembly? I would imagine that if I use a manifest in my VB6 app then everything will use the correct style but I would like to be able to control this myself if possible because we are using 3rd party controls in VB6 that do not require a manifest.
I've done much research in how to turn off visual styles for a custom drawn control, and coming only close on how to do this.
The problem I am seeing is that Application.EnableVisualStyles affects a boolean which tells the control how it should paint itself. I don't have a problem with styles being enabled, but rather getting a button to be drawn without using the visual styles rendering function.
Public Class LookupButton Inherits Button #Region "Disable Themes"
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Method 2 simply does not do anything, nor would I want to use it, since it calls unmanaged code.
Method 1 does the right thing for the button, disabling the theme, but of course it does way more than that causing the entire window/app to blink with/without visual styles. And even if this did work, I wouldn't use it because it effects the entire application.
We need visual styles enabled on progress bars, since marquee will be used on a few database calls.
The button has an image ontop of it which gets cut off by the visual styles rounded corners. And there are a few more controls which would be benificial to turn off visual styles as well.
If there is anyway to manipulate the ButtonRenderer so it does not render using visual styles, this is the solution I am looking for. Having no styling for any buttons is preferable.
This is for a project I am working on for my company. We have Visual Studio 2005 .NET Team Edition (per customer request), and are gold certified (which I don't want to give up community support/supporting the community, but is there any programming forums for us where our answers could be answered before 24 hours and/or the questions goes into consideration when microsoft develops tool?).
To me it seems silly to have Visual Styles enable-able for the whole application, when dealing with the windows api, individual windows/controls can easily be themed or unthemed.
When I draw a line on the form using Visual Basic Power Packs the ends of the line are squared off. Is there way to round them off? In code I could write something like this to do it:
vb.net Dim pn As New Pen(Color.Black, 5) pn.StartCap = Drawing2D.LineCap.Round pn.EndCap = Drawing2D.LineCap.Round
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong because I can't see how the problems I'm having with controls' appearance in Win7 can be normal. When "Enable XP visual styles" is enabled in my application, my progressbars never fill and gridlines don't show in Listviews. Disabling XP visual styles fixes those problems, but then everything looks like Win98 and that's no solution.
I'm working on two different projects - both in VB.NET/Visual Studio 2008 (as much as I'd like to move to 2010).
I find I'm confusing the different coding standards that I'm supposed to follow. IE - Project1 wants variables named in a Hungarian-style notation like 'iSomeValue'; the does not want a prefix. One project requires an _ prefix on private class-level variables - etc...etc...
Are there any tools I can integrate with VS 2008 that will let me easily swap between pre-defined styles and format my code for me?
Just wondering how i can enable visual styles with the application framework option disabled - it would be nice to have the ability to use the xp+ theming while having a bit more flexibility
I am migrating VB application in VB.NET.In VB application , there are using Microsoft windows common control 5.0 COMCTL32.OCX.When I add this component in migrated project, it becomes interop_mscommlib.dll.I want to remove any interop dll in my migrated project. Is there any .net supported COMCTL32 which i can use and from where I can get that.
I have used the wizard to upgrade from VB6 to VB2008. I find when I install my program on a new Windows7 computer that it needs comctl32.ocx & comdlg32.ocx. I thought these were just for VB6 and were no longer needed.
I wish to remove any references to comctl32 & comdlg32 from my vb2008 program so I donlt have to issue comctl32.ocx & comdlg32.ocx.
I have used the wizard to upgrade from VB6 to VB2008.I find when I install my program on a new Windows7 computer that it needs comctl32.ocx & comdlg32.ocx.I thought these were just for VB6 and were no longer needed.I wish to remove any references to comctl32 & comdlg32 from my vb2008 program so I donlt have to issue comctl32.ocx & comdlg32.ocx.
As Vista, comctl32.ocx is not accepted by Windows 7, I tried your workaround typing "regsvr32 -u comctl32.ocx" in a dos window, but another error is generated, specifying that the file was not found. But I verified, comctl32.ocx is really present under this name in system32 folder.
I have been using the VB IDE for many months on a VB6 translation to vb.net 2010. I have had no troubles building and running in debug,until the message below just appeared. This now prevents me from running in debug. I have not used Publish in the Build menu or used ClickOnce. The Project - application page has "enable XP visual styles" checked. I do not want this unchecked, which will remove the error message below.
The error message is: Error 2 Could not find file 'Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=*, PublicKeyToken=6595b
I am migrating VB application in VB.NET. In VB application , there are using Microsoft windows common control 5.0 COMCTL32.OCX. When I add this component in migrated project, it becomes interop_mscommlib.dll. I want to remove any interop dll in my migrated project. So my question is : Is there any .net supported COMCTL32 which i can use and from where I can get that.
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