Skin forms in a separate assembly

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   Is it possible to apply skins to forms, or dialogs, in a separate assembly than the main assembly that has the skin framework.

I have an assembly that has custom message boxes we use.
From the main application, I would like to have the skinframework automaticaly skin the message boxes when they are called.

I have tried setting the AutoApplyNewWindows property to true.

I have tried putting Appplication.EnableVisualStyles() in several places.

Neither seem to make the framework skin any dialogs from the custom message box assembly.

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coffeemkr0 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27 March 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote coffeemkr0 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Skin forms in a separate assembly Posted: 10 September 2008 at 10:37am
	Is it possible to apply skins to forms, or dialogs, in a separate assembly than the main assembly that has the skin framework. I have an assembly that has custom message boxes we use. From the main application, I would like to have the skinframework automaticaly skin the message boxes when they are called. I have tried setting the AutoApplyNewWindows property to true. I have tried putting Appplication.EnableVisualStyles() in several places. Neither seem to make the framework skin any dialogs from the custom message box assembly.

Aaron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 29 January 2008 Status: Offline Points: 2192	Post Options Post Reply Quote Aaron Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 September 2008 at 12:44pm
	Hi, I believe it isn't possible. There are other posts about this and neither of the (support) replies was succesfull See for example: https://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11497
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coffeemkr0 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27 March 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote coffeemkr0 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 September 2008 at 1:38pm
	I believe in that case, the user wanted to skin the main form and not skin child forms? This is not what I am looking for. I want to skin the main form, and skin the child forms. However, to do this in most cases, you have to add the ApplyWindow call in the child forms. This is not feasible if the child forms exist in a separate assembly than the calling application. At least if I use the method for skinning child forms used in the samples. It works for Windows Messageboxes, but not for my custom message boxes.