VS2010 project does not show 3D controls

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I just installed VS2010. I Created a hellow World project and in the Dialog editors all of the controls have a Win7 style to them. When I run the program, all of the controls have the Win95 style.

What do I have to do to get modern looking controls?

Posted 7-Feb-12 16:15pm

Geno Carman

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Feb-12 4:53am

It may depend on several factors: your OS version, its settings and the code...
--SA

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2012-02-08T00:33:00

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I think this link[^] may help.

Posted 8-Feb-12 0:33am

Richard MacCutchan

ErnestoNet · Answer 2 · 2012-02-08T01:13:00

At the end of stdafx.h, add:

#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")

That will work.
If it is already there (probably), remove ifdefs.

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Geno Carman · Answer 3 · 2012-02-08T14:58:00

I apparently turned OFF the project wizard's checkbox, "Unicode support".

As a result, the pragma's defining the manifest dependencies were undefined:

WTF? Microsoft thinks that if you don't want UNICODE, then you should not get modern looking controls? Those guys are killin me!

#ifdef _UNICODE
#if defined _M_IX86
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_X64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='amd64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#else
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#endif
#endif

Simple fix: Work around the Microsofties:

#if defined _M_IX86
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_IA64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='ia64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_X64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='amd64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#else
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#endif

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