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    Just a Human Anuradh_a's Avatar
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    custom toolbar

    hi
    I'm trying create a custom toolbar(word2007 like) . I tried the google and could not find any thing related this. so please help me !! thanks

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    I dont think this is possible in windows forms without a 3rd party library. At least from what I read yesterday from a late 2007 msdn blog posting. The win form guys were all mad that microsoft released capabilities for this for MFC. Don't know if this is still the case or not.

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    hi
    thanks for the replies guys. anyway I manage to create a custom toolbar(it doesn't look like world 2007).I used a tool strip and put a background image . now my problem is that when i changed the windows theme , the toolbar dosent get changed. How do I overcome this problem. Is it possible to track the whether the current theme is changed or not???

    sorry for my bad english
    thanks

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