Need help breaking out of standard window forms and buttons

[FalconDEW]

Can anybody help point me in the right direction regarding using different forms and buttons for my VB.net app? Ideally - after seeing some of the new windows UI in the new office products - I would like to use that cool blue look to the form with the cartoony-like toolbar buttons. Are these types of forms/toolbar graphics available to use and publish in apps? If not - how about designing my own forms and buttons? Thanks,

 

-Falcon

[divil]

The current version of the .NET framework does not contain classes to give you that kind of user interface. The next version will, to a limited extent. For the moment you will have to find a third-party control suite if you need this look and feel. Reproducing it manually is no small amount of work.