Set Foreground Color to an Individual Edit Box or Static Control

If you have several edit boxes but want to set color to one of them only,
capture the WM_CTLCOLOREDIT message and get the handle to that edit box.


case WM_CTLCOLOREDIT:
//Get Handle to that control first

if((HWND)lParam==GetDlgItem(hwnd,IDC_TEXTBOX)){
HDC hDC = (HDC)wParam;
COLORREF color = RGB(192,0,0); // red color
SetTextColor(hDC, color);
//Optionally, set background color
//SetBkColor(hDC, RGB(255,255,0)); /* yellow */
}
return GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
break;

For a static control use WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC message:
Example:

HDC hdcStatic = (HDC)wParam;
SetTextColor(hdcStatic, RGB(255, 0, 0)); //red color

Set the background mode to transparent to use the parent window's background color and return NULL_BRUSH:

SetBkMode(hdcStatic,TRANSPARENT);
return GetStockObject(NULL_BRUSH);