Win32 button appearance

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I'm working on a GUI for a chess program using Win32, and my first thought was to make the board an 8X8 grid of buttons. However, I would prefer the squares on my board to be solid, single colors with no additional visual frills, while I haven't found a way to create a button that doesn't have a border around it. Is it possible to alter the appearance of a button arbitrarily, or are the borders unavoidable? If the latter, what other implementation could I look into for rendering a board that looks exactly how I want?

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Look into sub-classing controls and owner-draw controls. - Richard Critten
Yes, you can draw every pixel. - Yakk - Adam Nevraumont
The owner-drawn controls look like they're probably exactly what I need. I swear I looked around the documentation before asking, but haven't found it very intuitive to find things in when I don't know the name of what I'm looking for going in. - Alex Kindel
Don't use a button. Paint your entire board directly. GUI controls are a good fit. - David Heffernan
@David Is there a specific kind of Win32 entity called a GUI control the same way there is one called a button? I'm not finding one searching for it on msdn.microsoft.com - Alex Kindel

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Create the buttons with the BS_OWNERDRAW style and handle the WM_DRAWITEM message.