To change background color of ListView items, you need to write your own OnCustomDrawItem event handler.

Colored lines in listbox are more user-friendly and easy to read. Here is how to do it…

It’s quite cool efect, but this is also effective way to save some space in your application GUI. Let’s place progressbar of some time-consuming function right into the button, which started this function.

The standard system font size in Windows XP is 96 dpi. You can also use 120 dpi, if your prefer bigger fonts or you can set this font size to your own value. However, the most applications today are tested only with standard font size and if you change it, even professional applications can have [...]

Using this simple trick, you can write any text right on Windows desktop. You can choose text color, transparency, position…