Unable to change the background color of the form header in winform application

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Unable to change the background color of the form header in winform application

Sunny Sharma 1

We are building a Winform application in Dotnet 6 using c# language and there is a requirement to change the forms header background colour and customize other bits. Is it possible to customize the colour and other elements of header like minimize, maximize and close button

Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points

2022-10-11T14:35:00.557+00:00

If "form header" means the system caption, this is done with DWM (with DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea, like in the MSDN C++ sample)
Sunny Sharma 1 Reputation point

2022-10-11T15:03:46.797+00:00

By form i mean to amend the background color as is shown in the attachment
Jack J Jun 25,296 Reputation points

2022-10-12T06:31:20.907+00:00

@Sunny Sharma , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, based on my search, I find that there is no direct property to change the color of the title bar. Maybe you could refer to Bruce's idea to use two methods to change the background color of the form header.
Link: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/94b6deb4-0a48-4c22-ac61-9f43176bac09/changing-windows-forms-header-color?forum=winformsapplications
Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points

2022-10-12T06:38:29.627+00:00

Then as I said, with DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea, which allows to draw anything in the caption (what you draw in the client area is drawn in the caption) :

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Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points

2022-10-11T14:35:00.557+00:00

If "form header" means the system caption, this is done with DWM (with DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea, like in the MSDN C++ sample)
Sunny Sharma 1 Reputation point

2022-10-11T15:03:46.797+00:00

By form i mean to amend the background color as is shown in the attachment
Jack J Jun 25,296 Reputation points

2022-10-12T06:31:20.907+00:00

@Sunny Sharma , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, based on my search, I find that there is no direct property to change the color of the title bar. Maybe you could refer to Bruce's idea to use two methods to change the background color of the form header.
Link: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/94b6deb4-0a48-4c22-ac61-9f43176bac09/changing-windows-forms-header-color?forum=winformsapplications
Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points

2022-10-12T06:38:29.627+00:00

Then as I said, with DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea, which allows to draw anything in the caption (what you draw in the client area is drawn in the caption) :

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