I've been looking everywhere for a while and haven't found a good solution yet. The closest I've come was an inherited Form class with the non-client area painted to resemble the early look of Windows Vista. There were some glitches, like the minimize, maximize, and close buttons activating on mouse down instead of on mouse click. I'll try to find it again (which I doubt since Google's results are full of irrelevant results for my search query). Until then, if anyone would like to write an article on the basic implementation of skinning all the elements of a window, that would help us all! :D

Please, no glitched implementations though. We all have tried the hide-titlebar-and-make-fake-close-and-minimize-buttons workaround, but those don't come close to the real thing, and there is no facility for maximizing.