Windows Presentation Foundation Samples
Classic Theme

This is the XAML that defines the Classic theme for Microsoft .NET Framework controls on Windows Vista. 

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Fall-back theme
The Classic theme is also fall-back theme when operating system does not use one of the themes recognized by WPF (Classic, Luna, Royale, Aero). Themes to Windows XP/Vista can be downloaded from many places on the Internet, but such themes are not authorized by Microsoft and their installation requires several patches in Windows (uxtheme.dll). Unfortunately WPF cannot utilize such themes and shows controls in Classic theme instead.
There is also one additional theme from Microsoft for Windows XP - the Zune theme. This theme is not recognized by WPF and it falls back to Classic.
Solution is to force one theme to your application, but this makes it look "alien" on when user uses another theme.

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