Visual Studio 2010 Dialog Editor produces Win95 themed controls

Question

I've just started using Visual Studio 2010's Dialog Editor and the first thing I noticed was that the controls I can add all have the Windows 95 style and not the Window Vista/7 Aero style.

I suspect that maybe only MFC has Aero style controls, but I can't test this since I really do not want to use MFC (this is supposed to be a super lightweight program).

Is there anything I can do to make Dialog boxes with Aero style controls?

possible duplicate of Programming In C + Win API: How To Get Windows 7 Look For Controls? — Cody Gray

David Heffernan David Heffernan · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-11T10:59:05

You need to make sure that your application includes a comctl32 v6 manifest to enable visual styles.

The simple way to do this is to add the following to your code:

#pragma comment(linker,"\"/manifestdependency:type='win32' \
name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' \
processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")

Visual Studio 2010 Dialog Editor produces Win95 themed controls

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