Kind of a newbie question

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I am a beg/int windows developer and have to what is to most of you a simple question but one I have not found an answer too.* I have noticed that since Vista shipped, applications that Microsoft releases really don't have the old XP "Style" to them anymore.* They don't look like Vista completely either and I know why.

 

For example WMP11, Live Messenger, and most of the rest of the Live suite have a hybrid of a look of something that isn't XP and not quite Aero Basic (non Glass).

 

I have the RTM of VS2008 Pro and want to make similar applications for XP.* Can this be done?* I have tried with Windows Form Application but it looks like the Luna theme in XP and Aero in Vista.* I have watched these (the ones I*want to mimic)*applications startup and to me, at least with WMP11, that it runs inside the client window area and for a brief moment it has the XP menu and title bar above it until they disappear.

 

Any ideas would be great, but I am almost sure this is something that is proprietary to Microsoft and or someone at MS has built a Aero'esc custom interface.* But hoping it is possibly a setting in the new VS2008 that will do this.* Thanks for any help.

 

Jhan Jensen

 

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