IceBreakerG

Yes. Like i said, the visual styles were working fine before i added the flash object. I added the flash object and only some work now.

One more thing. The visual styles work on the buttons in message boxes, but not on the form.

I was already using Application.EnableVisualStyles() but i wasn't using what you wrote under it. I added that to the code and i got this error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception' occurred in system.windows.forms.dll Additional information: Error creating window handle. But like i said earlier, everything worked fine, until i added the flash object to my program, then only some of the visual styles worked. This is a list of all the controls i'm using in the program: MainMenu TabControl - visual styles work StatusBar - visual styles work Labels - can't really tell group boxes - visual styles not working buttons - visual styles not working radio buttons - visual styles not working flash.ocx object - doesn't apply I'm also using a manifest file too. If i delete the flash object from the form, visual styles work on all applicable controls, if i put it back, visual styles only work on some :(

Yes you can whosyodaddy. I found a sample program that uses the flash object in your program. The sample program only plays the file, but i'm sure you can look at the code and see how simple it would be to manipulate it. I've attached the file to my post, i hope this helps :)playflashfile.zip

I'm writing a program in visual basic .net 2003, and i used a manifest file to get the windows xp themes to work with the program. Everything worked fine until i added the flash.ocx file to my program to play flash animations. When i added the flash object to my form, the windows xp themes stopped working on most of the controls (buttons, labels, group boxes, radio buttons, etc.), but the xp theme still works on the TabControl i'm using. Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening, and how i can still use the flash object and have the windows xp theme still work? I'm running windows xp professional sp1. Thanks.