Applying Windows XP Visual Styles to Visio Add-In

[Peter Dewildt]

I have a Visio Add-In developed in VB .NET.

I would like the forms that it uses to display using the Windows XP Visual
Style.

I have found an article in MSDN "Using Windows XP Visual Styles With
Controls on Windows Forms". But it only appears to describe how to do this
for .exe files, rather than .dll files. Anyway, I tried following the
described procedure, but it did not work.

Is it possible to do this for dlls? if so, how is it done?

Peter

 

[Peter Dewildt]

OK, after some experimenting I came up with an answer.

The name of the Manifest file has to be

Visio.exe.manifest

and it has to be placed in the Visio install directory.

This leads to a new question. How do I get my Setup kit to determine the
location of the Visio install directory?