Modern Windows GUI visual styles

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Valery Wrote:

> Recently I spent a few hours to find a way to enable a new styles of Windows XP controls from the code (without manual created external manifest files, resource files, ...). The only solution I found in DFL library and it looks quite complicated.
> 
> Maybe should create that function at the level of the compiler or linker?

As far as I know, the only way to get the newer common controls library is to use an assembly manifest, be it external or compiled as a resource. I haven't looked into DFL but I'm pretty sure it simply generates the proper manifest resource and link it in the executable.