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Asked: 2026-05-11T04:23:18+00:00

My Windows Forms application uses the following standard line of code so that visual

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My Windows Forms application uses the following standard line of code so that visual styles (theming) is enabled for the entire application…

Application.EnableVisualStyles();

…which works just fine, all the controls have a themed appearance instead of the flat battleship gray that you would get otherwise. But I need to turn off visual styles for just a single control instance. I cannot remove the above line because then I would lose theming from all the controls. Is it possible to remove theming from a single control instance?

FYI: As it happens I want to remove theming from a DateTimePicker instance so if the general answer is no except for the DateTimePicker then that would be good enough. I am happy to use platform invoke if the solution involves playing with the control at the lowest level.

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  1. It looks like you can use SetWindowTheme on a control:

    [DllImport('uxtheme', ExactSpelling = true, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)] public extern static Int32 SetWindowTheme (IntPtr hWnd,                String textSubAppName, String textSubIdList);  yourControl.FlatStyle = FlatStyle.System; SetWindowTheme(yourControl.Handle, '', '');

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