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I have a SDI application with a dialog that is run in App::Initinstance(). The dialog body get’s skinned, but not the frame around it or the caption bar. How can I fix that?
The mainframe is skinned to when it’s displayed, so the skin is loaded alright.

BOOL CAgentApp::InitInstance()
{
    // InitCommonControls() is required on Windows XP if an application
    // manifest specifies use of ComCtl32.dll version 6 or later to enable
    // visual styles. Otherwise, any window creation will fail.
    InitCommonControls();

    CWinApp::InitInstance();

    SetupUiAdvancedOptions();

    CExtPaintManagerSkin * pPM = new CExtPaintManagerSkin;
    if( ! pPM->m_Skin.SearchAndLoadSkinFile( _T("BlackDiamond.Skin"), false ) )
    {
        ::AfxMessageBox( _T("Failed to load initial skin.") );
        delete pPM;
    }
    else
        g_PaintManager.InstallPaintManager( pPM );


    try
    {
        queueSystem.Startup(Settings::GetInstance().GetRemoteHost(),
            Settings::GetInstance().GetRemotePort());
    }
    catch (const runtime_error& err)
    {
        AfxMessageBox(err.what());
        return FALSE;
    }

    // This is the dialog. (inherits CExtRezisableDialog)
    CLoginDlg dlg;
    dlg.SetQueueSystem(queueSystem);
    INT_PTR res = dlg.DoModal();
    if (res == IDCANCEL)
        return FALSE;

    [....]
}

Ok. I found the CExtNCW template class. How do I use the code described in "How to subclass controls on a CExtResizableDialog dialog dynamically?"?

You can just copy the content of SubclassAllControlsDynamically() to your code and invoke it in the OnInitDialog() method:

SubclassAllControlsDynamically( m_hWnd );