Having applied an XP theme to my VB.NET application (calling Application.EnableVisualstyle()), everything appears to be themed properly: command buttons, scrollbars, checkboxes and so on all appear to be fully XP-themed. The treeview control, however, isn't. The [+] buttons appear properly, it's the scrollbar that is the problem. Sometimes it is a full blue XP scrollbar, sometimes it is grey and blocky but usually it's a mixture, with a blue scroll bar and grey arrow buttons or vice-versa. Is this "normal" behaviour? Is there any way around this that you know of? I do have an image list control attached to the tree view control, but am calling Application.DoEvents() before displaying the form as per the instructions on MSDN.

Unfortunately, this is normal behaviour as far as I'm aware, and it has caused me many hours of insanity trying to fix. The best (free) solution I have found are code project custom controls like this one or if you want a complete solution (for most of the Windows XP theme bugs), try Skybound Visualstyles which is also free.

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... or if you want a complete solution (for most of the Windows XP theme bugs), try Skybound Visualstyles which is also free.

That looks like a great bit of kit - I'll give that a go. Thanks!