VS2005 problem with look/feel of Combo and Edit boxes

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ARTMIC - 20 Jun 2006 23:10 GMT

Hello i have an old project from Visual studio 2003, and when i convert it to
the new Visual Studio 2005 project, everything works perfectly, the exception
being the look/feel of the application !!!

When i create a new app in VS2005 the combo boxes, and edit boxes have this
sleek thin blue border around them,
BUT the converted project from 2003 VS still has the regular 3d box like
appearance around the damn combo boxes and edit boxes !!! i can't seem to get
it to work with the sleek look,

Does anyone know what the problem is?

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 21 Jun 2006 10:06 GMT

Hi,

You may need:

1) To select the checkbox "Enable XP Visual Styles" in the project
properties pages ("Application section"), to avoid the use of an external
XML manifest file.

2) Change the FlatStyle property of controls from Standard to System.

See:

Creating a Visual Studio .NET Add-In to Provide Windows XP Theme Support
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html
/xpthemeaddin_.asp

If you need to change the FlatStyle property of all the controls of your app
by hand, my MZ-Tools add-in (below) has an SDK and an external operation
("Enable Windows XP Theme") to do it automatically:

External Operations (MZ-Tools SDK of MZ-Tools 4.0 and higher)
http://www.mztools.com/community.htm#ExternalOperations

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
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> Hello i have an old project from Visual studio 2003, and when i convert it
> to
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> Does anyone know what the problem is?

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