Is there a way to set an application appearance different with the windows appearence?

Question

e.g. set the application appearance to classic, but set the window appearance to Aero style. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

If you are using WPF or Silverlight you can use Themes. This page on the MSDN goes into some detail.

WPF Themes on CodePlex has examples.

This article on Code Project has some more information.

You'd actually want just one unchangeable theme and that would be the Windows Classic one.