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<\/a><\/p>\n.Net application skin<\/a> could be the first solution for most programmer. But it seems not worth it, because a huge skin library has to be installed just for this simple function. Furthermore, commercial skin library is not free at all.<\/p>\n I have to go back google again. Someone mention that it can override WndProc<\/a> and in WM_NCPAINT, you have to draw your own title bar, and write function for each button. It seems a lot of work to do.Finally, I invent this peculiar way.<\/p>\n 1.\tCreate a transparent Form, This article actually was written in last Christmas, now I just re-post in my new home. Every programmer wants his application GUI to stand out, and so do I. A new idea came into my mind. I would like to add a Christmas hat on the top left corner of my WinForm application. This is … Continue reading “Decorate your .Net WinForm application in a peculiar way”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2.\tPut only a hat inside
\n3.\tLet it stay on the top left corner<\/p>\nprivate void Form1_LocationChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)\n{\n hat.Location = new Point(this.Location.X-30,this.Location.Y-10);\n}\n\nprivate void Form1_Activated(object sender, System.EventArgs e)\n{\n if(!hat.TopMost)\n {\n hat.TopMost = true;\n hat.BringToFront();\n }\n}\n\nprivate void Form1_Deactivate(object sender, System.EventArgs e)\n{\n if(hat.TopMost)\n hat.TopMost = false;\n}\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"