xp style

I want to make my VB6 application look like a XP style window
i know what i need to do for exe file
but i want xp style look from visual basic
it's posible?
i use vb 6 and windows xp

Is this what you mean?
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Libraries/XP_Visual_Styles/Making_VB_Apply_Visual_Styles_at_Design_and_Debug_Time/article.asp

thank you

VK123....
I am not as proficient as I'd like to be.
If you got this to work, could you give me a basic
step-by-step on how to do it?
Thanks.

unzip this file and put in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98

run your visual basic.


The attached file is not an EXE but the zipped manifest file

vk123:
Perhaps I'm just stupid...
I did as you instructed.
Ran VB and created an .exe of my app.
Ran the .exe but saw no difference in appearance.
What am I missing?
(I am on windows2000)

vk123:
Perhaps I'm just stupid...
I did as you instructed.
Ran VB and created an .exe of my app.
Ran the .exe but saw no difference in appearance.
What am I missing?
(I am on windows2000)

i think what u want is to skin ur app???
the MacGuyver-way to do it would b like Ega eplained here:

http://www.visualbasicforum.com/t85052.html


there are also some third party controls for this purpose

flyguy posted this link :
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Controls/Explorer_Bar_Control/article.asp

it work only in windows xp

vk123:
Perhaps I'm just stupid...
I did as you instructed.
Ran VB and created an .exe of my app.
Ran the .exe but saw no difference in appearance.
What am I missing?
(I am on windows2000)
Even if you did have Win XP, you have to put a copy of the manifest file in the same directory as your application and call it "yourapp.exe.manifest" - where yourapp is the name of your application otherwise your app would just have the "XP look" at design time.

What vk123 is talking about is that he wants his application to have a windows xp look on all the versions of windows. Sample code that can be found on planet source code is attached.