If you've done any work with WinForms apps in Visual Studio 2005, you may have noticed that you can't get your buttons and toolbars to look as "pretty" as the built-in Vista apps you get from MS. Here's a good article on CodeProject which details how to fix some of that.
It details:
- Getting the fade effects on some common controls (Buttons, Checkboxes, Radiobuttons, Textboxes, Comboboxes)
- Getting images working on Buttons, and preserving fade-effects
- Getting the fade effects on toolbars
- Getting the Windows Vista theme on MainMenus and ContextMenus
- Getting Commandlinks and SplitButtons
- Getting the explorer-like interface for listBoxes and Treeviews
Obviously, you'll want to have Vista installed to run the project.