"Craig" <craigvn@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am trying to find the border color for a group box so I can create
> some additional lines within the group box that match it. I can't find
> any reference that says which system color it maps to. I have tried a
> few different colors but some match on XP but not in Vista so if I can
> find the system color reference that would help a lot.

> Because a Control's colors may be any colors, highlights and shadows must
> be relative to the color of the Control. There is a class you can use to
> get these colors: System.Windows.Forms.ControlPaint. See the following
> reference:
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.controlpaint.aspx