How to imitate Opera 10.50's custom UI?

For the past two days i have been looking around the net to find how Opera made their pre-alpha build with that UI. I mean its like built with 开发者_JAVA技巧windows shell here are some screenshots

any tutorials , books or videos would be helpful

P.S. I also saw the win 7 SDK but its all C++ samples and i learn C#

for c# there is http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3574

especcially look at GlassForm class it certainly allows that icons on the transparent filed in the status bar.

Maybe this will be helpful too:

Aero Glass inside a WPF Window

Have you checked this tutorial out?

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/FancyNetForms.aspx

It looks quite good...

You need to custom build something like that using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), a sample of what you can build is http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar-wpf/