Revert Corporate Windows 7 Theme?
Dec 21, 2010
As my Christmas week side-project I thought I'd knock up a quick console app that I can run from the windows Start-up folder.
The application is going to delete some unwanted Global Corporate Desktop Icons (I like to run a clean desktop - is this common?) and Reset the Windows 7 Theme to my lovely Visual Studio 2010 graphics.
I have read the reasons why this shouldn't be done pro grammatically for the user but I feel this case is different as every morning I am manually deleting the icons and resetting the theme (policy is not stopping this - just reapplying it every morning) so I though this little side project could save me time in the long term.
I am deleting the Icons OK but I am struggling to set my theme ala:
Dim key As RegistryKey = My.Computer.Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionThemes", True)
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This is setting the registry key correctly but not applying it. Ultimately I may try a simple Wallpaper Set but I would like to use the theme if possible!
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Feb 18, 2010
I saw other program can use theme in their program , they don't care theme of windows.Can i add theme to my program?but care theme of OS
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Jun 4, 2011
Is there a way to see if the user is using Windows 7.If yes, can we change their theme when the Form loads, and change it back when it closes?
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Dec 12, 2009
I have a theme called 'Zune' on my computer, and like the way it looks.Is there a way too, make the program use the 'Zune' theme..even if the computer itself is using the default xxxx theme?I can simulate it by doing the graphics, but to make the program border less, then to do the move code when they click on the image box...etc... makes it for tedious work.
If I could somehow make the program use the theme..
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Jun 7, 2011
Disable aero in visual basic HowTo: How to programatically disable the Windows Aero theme for standalone ArcGIS applications
C# - Enable / Disable DWM Composition (Aero)
Any of you whiz bang kids know how to accomplish this with VB6? (I realize this is not a VB6 forum but just curious if any of you VB.NET programmers know how to translate this into VB6 Basically, this code ported to VB6
[DllImport("dwmapi.dll", PreserveSig = false)]
public static extern int DwmEnableComposition(bool fEnable);
static void Main(string[] args)
[code]....
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Oct 8, 2010
Previously I used to piddle around with VB6 to develop a couple of personal projects. Following my upgrade to Windows 7, I've decided to piddle about with vb.net Express Edition 2010.If I wanted my VB6 application to blend in with the visual style of Windows, I would use the code and techniques described here. In short, I would use a Manifest file and a couple of calls within the application and most of the elements would look similar to the XP theme applied. If it was run on 2000, 95 or 98 then it would look like a standard Windows app. All was good.
Now I've moved onto vb.net, I've written a simple "Hello, world" application but I have absolutely no idea on how to make it look like the Windows 7 theme (eg. the font matches the system font and the widgets are styled correctly).Just changing the font is a hack and will look out of place on machines that are set-up differently or run a different version of Windows where the default font is different.How do I ensure my application matches the applied Windows theme irrespective of the version of Windows?
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Apr 21, 2009
We are migrating our applications to VB.Net 2008 from Classic VB and I need to create a base namespace and business layer. My method of approach is going to be to visit our top BA and identify the common areas of our (Fixed Income) company and try to form a decent inheritence model with as much of the code in generics as possible. What's everyone's experience of doing this and also as a second part of the question, we are looking at incorporating Web Focus into the OLAP side, how would this affect the design of the corporate namespace and it's derivatives?
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Feb 18, 2010
I have a textbox that requires the user to input the value of the Value-Added Tax of that certain area. I tried testing 12.5%. The string is converted to decimal then divided by 100 so 12.5/100 = .125. But when the program writes the value to a file, 0 is writen. not .125
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Sep 28, 2010
I want to get the old state (lets say datagridview default state) of grid after sorting is done. How can I achive this.
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May 28, 2011
i am making a revolutionary web browser called bolt and i have nearly finished it!
I would like to add settings but the problem is that when i restart the web browser settings revert to default i tought about saving them into an ini or dat file called setting
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Feb 13, 2010
I have a code snippet that I want to run when the app is closing. So, I used FormCLosing event. But now i wanna place a confirmation message for exiting. Like, if the user clicks the Exit(X) button, there'll be a prompt, if he clicks NO, then the app will not close and revert to previous state. Now I find that hard to achieve using FormClosing event. because it'll get executed no matter what button the user clicks.
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Jul 16, 2009
How do I revert a form including the controls back to a original state without closing the app? For example I got a picture box and 2 buttons in a form..
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Jan 30, 2009
How to use theme in vbwhat's codeOr what's step to use themeI don't know anything about itonly 3 days i have to send my program
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Apr 12, 2010
I made a change to a project and hve induced a major problem. I have warnings and errors now, but I can still debug the project with the "last successful build" Iwould like to just revert everything to that build but I can't find a way to eliminate the problems I induced or find a way to go to a earlier build. Hopefully I can get back to an earlier version or I will loose the entire project as I can no longer get to the designer.
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Apr 10, 2010
I have tried the following code but has no effect:
Imports system.Runtime.InteropServices
<DllImport("UxTheme.DLL", BestFitMapping:=False, CallingConvention:=CallingConvention.Winapi, CharSet:=CharSet.Unicode, EntryPoint:="#65")> _
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Mar 9, 2009
I'm trying to make my app look ok on different computers with Windows XP. Therefor I want to check for the systems "theme" (you know the "olive green" or "standard blue" settings) so that I can load different buttons and backimages etc.
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Oct 9, 2009
i am not able to figure out any code on how to do this. I am trying to make it so when the person chooses a color in the ColorDialog, the all my buttons forecolors go to that, then the dialog will show to pick a back color.
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Jan 17, 2010
Does anyone here know any Visual Basic 2008 Skinner? I want to style my application, so that it just wont look like traditional windows forms.To aim is not enough. You must hit.
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Jun 26, 2009
is there a way to determine what theme that the end user is using.for example im making a program where the glass is extended so if the end user uses the program on a computer that is not using the vista aero theme then the program will look different then it would if they were using the aero theme.how would i check to see if they have the aero theme and could i set the theme to aero from my program?
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Aug 11, 2010
I need to change the theme of the Windows Operating System on which the application will run. I have to use the files with .theme extension. Can anyone guide how to do this, so I can finish my application.
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Feb 18, 2011
I am using visual basic 2008 and third party controls "Dotnetbar" in my project. I am trying to use colorpickerdropdown as theme change I mean when I choose any color from the colorpickerdropdown my form backcolor will be changed as well as the whole project.
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Sep 6, 2009
I'm building a theme manager. Each theme contains and XML file to describe the theme and a couple of images. I load the themes with a custom control into a wrappanel. As a preview of the theme I use a custom control, that shows the first 3 images of the theme. I load the picture into the images as follows (codeblock 1). You can delete the theme by selecting it in the wrappanel and then press delete theme button. It will add the name of the theme to a list and will delete the theme when the app exists. But then the app will bring up an error message saying that the file is used by another process - which is the main window of the app that has been closed.
Dim imgsrc As New BitmapImage
imgsrc.BeginInit()
imgsrc.DecodePixelHeight = theme.Image1.Height
imgsrc.DecodePixelWidth = theme.Image1.Width
imgsrc.UriSource = New Uri(fi.Directory.FullName & "" & nodes.Item(i).ChildNodes.Item(0).InnerText)
imgsrc.EndInit()
theme.Image1.Source = imgsrc
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Apr 26, 2010
I was looking all over but didn't find how to change VB 2010 Express default gray theme,
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Jun 22, 2010
know that there is library which can change the theme of the form but i do not
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Oct 3, 2010
My next question is how do i use a .msstyle file for the form theme/style? Preferably not using SkinSoft Visual Styler.net because this doesnt support some things like fixed single border. It also isnt free.
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Oct 27, 2011
Ok, so i am trying o make it so that a user can change themes, i have moved all major code to a module so it can be accessed but then i have a problem.
I have 6 forms, all forms are the same just different themes, The problem is that in the module it calls form1, like for example form1.webbrowser.blah.blah, if i user used form3 for there theme then this dones not work as in the module it calls form1.
Basically i need to add something else there like for example:
dim Cform as string
Cform = form1
Cform.webbrowser.blah.blah
But form1 can not be a string
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Jul 27, 2010
I wanted to know how you could make your own custom form border style.
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Dec 15, 2009
I'm trying to change the backcolor of a .Net GridView when a certain condition is met. This should be fairly straightforward, but the color change isn't happening. Checking the rendered HTML shows absolutely nothing different in the affected rows even though the text change on the link is happening as expected.There is a default theme set for all gridviews and I haven't worked with that in the past. Is that preventing me from dynamically changing the color of a row or am I missing something else? I'm using .Net 3.5 and have the following in my code behind:
Protected Sub gvPrevious_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles gvPrevious.RowDataBound
If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
If currentCorrespondence.IsRetired Then //custom object, returning as expected
Dim link As LinkButton = DirectCast(e.Row.Controls(4).Controls(2), LinkButton)
[code]....
From the above code, when I go into the browser and view source, I would expect to see <tr style="background-color: #CD5C5C;"> for the affected rows. Instead, I see <tr> and <tr class="AlternateRowStyle"> (where appropriate). I see absolutely no effect from the BackColor property change. I have also attempted to use e.Row.CssClass with the same result.
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Oct 9, 2009
Ok i am making a game in visual basic where its 1998 and you have windows 95 and you find time travel software and travel to different time periods with different operating systems...so far i have coded windows 95 and partly windows 98 into the game and have a good time travel sequence... (this will be a completely free game in the future)
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Jun 8, 2012
I think there is something wrong with the themes i use, aeonhacks' by the my program is all okey now, except the startup even i set the location on centerscreen when i run it, it doesnt show up on the center screen? anyone encounter this before?
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