Glass look for MDI windows under Vista

Question

I am developing a winforms MDI application in C# in VS 2008. I have noticed that the MDI forms don't have the glass look under Vista.

Is this by design? Is there a simple way to get the glass look for these windows?

Answer 1

By default glass is not enabled on WinForms (or for that matter WPF applications). The only way to enable glass is to PInvoke into native API's. This channel9 site does a tutorial for a great utility that makse it trivial to add Glass effects to your controls.

http://channel9.msdn.com/playground/Sandbox/201158/

Answer 2

Nope, Glass is not available for MDI children.