change background color of the form header area in windows form c#

Uncategories change background color of the form header area in windows form c#

using System;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

using System.Windows.Forms;

public class MyForm : Form

{

const int DWMWA_CAPTION_COLOR = 35;

[DllImport("dwmapi.dll")]

public static extern int DwmSetWindowAttribute(IntPtr hwnd, int attr, ref int attrValue, int attrSize);

public MyForm()

{

this.Load += (s, e) => ChangeTitleBarColor(Color.DarkBlue);

}

private void ChangeTitleBarColor(Color color)

{

int colorValue = color.R | (color.G << 8) | (color.B << 16);

DwmSetWindowAttribute(this.Handle, DWMWA_CAPTION_COLOR, ref colorValue, sizeof(int));

}

[STAThread]

public static void Main()

{

Application.EnableVisualStyles();

Application.Run(new MyForm());

}