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According to MSDN on SystemColors.ActiveCaption:

Gets a Color structure that is the color of the background of the active window's title bar.

I'm finding that no matter what theme I have set in Windows 8, in Visual Studio this color is always the same (some shade of blue).:

Visual Studio ActiveCaption color (blue)

In reality, my windows ActiveCaption is a shade of green:

Actual ActiveCaption color (green)

So, why the difference? Where is Visual Studio pulling the ActiveCaption color (or the InactiveCaption, or any of the other system colors for that matter) if this value never changes?

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  • Yup. And it is in fact the color you get when you use the theme api to draw the caption. There is no known way to reproduce the Windows 8 look. Appcompat is rough. – Hans Passant Dec 11 '14 at 18:25
  • [This question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13660976/get-the-active-color-of-windows-8-automatic-color-theme) appears to be very similar. However, [this question's answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3560890/vista-7-how-to-get-glass-color) met my application's needs. – CrazyIvan1974 Jan 10 '15 at 05:57
  • [This question's answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/24600956/1730559) seems to be the only correct one which gives the proper blended titlebar color. – kjbartel Feb 06 '15 at 07:15

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