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    Skins

    General Solution for a Transparent Control

    Discover a very simple, integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl, and progress control transparent in a dialog box.

    Skin Customization Page for the BCGControlBar Library

    An extension for Stas Levin's excellent toolbar library

    Gimme Some Skin... VideoSkins

    Fantastic approach to adding skins to your Windows applications!