Winforms border style

Question

I am trying to make a form with a border like the border on the Windows Vista volume control. The form would need to be resizeable as well.

Thanks, giodamelio

To be a little more clear about what I am looking for. Here is a form with the ControlBox property set to false.

Here is a rough Photoshop of what I am looking for.

Answer 1

Set the forms .Controlbox=False
Set the forms .Text=""

Done.

Answer 2

You can enable in your Projectsettigs "enable XP-Visual Style". If you launch your application now, you should have the default borderstyle of the launched OS

Answer 3

Try setting the FormBorderStyle to None or Fixed(3D|Single) and work from there, perhaps.

Alternatively, setting the ControlBox to False should also have the effect of hiding the title bar. However, beware that the form won’t update automatically:

If you set ControlBox to false, and also set the Location property, the Size property of Form will not update to reflect that the non-client area of the form has been hidden. To fix this problem, put the code which alters the Location property to the HandleCreated event.

Answer 4

One way achieve this by following steps:

• Set FormBorderStyle of your Form to None.

• Take a PictureBox, set its Dock Property to Fill.

• Take a image containing Border, and set this Image to the PictureBox.