Windows XP Look & Feel with manifest

re: Windows XP Look & Feel with manifest

Matt Hawley — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:57:00 GMT

Great for 1.0, however in 1.1, all you have to do is call Application.EnableVisualStyles() prior to launching your form. In fact, an even better method, is to use a 3rd party assembly from Skybound (www.skybound.ca) ... its the "VisualStyles" free assembly.

re: Windows XP Look & Feel with manifest

Junfeng Zhang — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:12:00 GMT

The manifest works for everything, not just for managed applications.

The example I shown is on fuslogvw.exe, which is an unmanaged application.

re: Windows XP Look & Feel with manifest

Simon — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:36:00 GMT

I'll give this a try - the standard visual styles support leaves a LOT of bugs behind, simple ones too - like clicking on the scrollbars of a combobox.

Hopefully it'll work better using version 6 of comctl32...

re: Windows XP Look & Feel with manifest

Jesse — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 18:26:00 GMT

If you put "processorArchitecture="x86"" will the application fail compeltely on 64bit Windows, or will it just run in 32bit mode?

re: Windows XP Look & Feel with manifest

Junfeng Zhang — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 18:53:00 GMT

If the application is a native 64 bit application, it will completely fail. If it is a 32 bit application, then it will run in 32 bit mode. Manifest does not decide which mode the application runs. The PE does.

re: Windows XP Look & Feel with manifest

Dan — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:16:00 GMT

If you happen to be writing a VB6 app it is possible by also calling InitCommonControls, but not supported.

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=309366