Question

I created an Interop user control in VS2005. When the user control is shown inside VB6, it does not pickup/use the XP styles (The buttons and the tabs look like VB6 buttons/tabs).

How do I get the XP styles to work with my control while it is in VB6?

Answer 1

The manifest file only works for earlier versions of .net and after .net 1.1 you can activate them programmatically. I had to add the line Application.EnableVisualStyles() in the default constructor of the interop user control.

Public Sub New()     Application.EnableVisualStyles() '-- I added this line     ' This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.     InitializeComponent()     ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call.     'Raise Load event     Me.OnCreateControl() End Sub 

Here is Microsoft’s post on Application.EnableVisualStyles that explains everything.

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@marioh – thanks for the response.