In Visual Studio 2008 with Crystal Clear Color scheme, the title of collapsable toolbar have a white foreground which is unreadable on the clear background.

in C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Crystal Clear\Crystal Clear.msstyles

I've replaced using the tool (Resource Tuner) :

[SysMetrics]
DkShadow3d = 255 255 255

by

[SysMetrics]
DkShadow3d = 0 0 0

that seem's to work without side effect.

any better way of dealing with this issue ?

Visual Studio always is a sucker when it comes to visual styles and such, I gave up on trying to make my old xp look better simply because it rendered visual studio useless, or rather, unusable.

raaf
In the way that you've explained your modification, I think there is no side effect since you've only altered the colour
But just see whether this has altered the same view in other applications than VS 2008

.Ghost. Yes sometimes it does but the thing is when making visual styles the creater cannot assume all the software that the users going to use with the msstyle and believe me There are other visual styles & even applications which conflict as this

I have never used VS 2008... But VS 2005 works fine with themes

New versions come with New modalities
There is nothong wrong with the application,  but just some image file of the msstyle not suitable for the application in contrast with the text

Perhaps, that may be the reason

By the way, welcome back Neil... You were away for a while right??