Custom Renderer? - Visual Basic 2008

Hi all,

I am trying to work on (another, kind of based on the previous one that I created a few days ago) text editor, and I am attempting to create a custom renderer for the application.

I've been looking over the code from MSDN, and so far I've only been able to get the menubar to have a custom background. I also want to render the toolbar as well, but it seems that there's nothing there at all for it;  All that I see is "RenderToolStripBackground", and all that it does when I render it (using the code below) is format the Menubar.  I want to do more than just the menubar.

    Private Sub CustomProfessionalRenderer_RenderToolStripBackground(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripRenderEventArgs) Handles Me.RenderToolStripBackground

        Dim b = New SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, 64, 64, 64))

        e.Graphics.FillRectangle(b, e.ToolStrip.Location.X, e.ToolStrip.Location.Y, e.ToolStrip.Width, e.ToolStrip.Height)

        b.Dispose()

    End Sub

Nobody has any idea?

what about going to:
http://www.componentfactory.com/

and using that free library / toolkit ??

it does a ton of stuff with winforms and can make them look almost any way you want.

or if you want to see how to code your own buy the source and see how his code works.

Try setting the RenderMode Property to System, then just set the background color property.