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old Look and feel of WinForms Applications ?

kami l

Hi all,

I use the .Net 3 framework and VS 2005 But my Windows Forms look like old ones, I mean like MFC applications or windows 95 .

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

kort

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kami l19y ago

Hi all,

I found a solution, thanks to Patrick Sears

Are you using the Zune desktop theme under Windows XP? That theme specifically is not supported by the WPF default styles, causing all the controls to look square and bland.

This is a good start for forcing your WPF app to use a particular Windows theme set:

http://notstatic.com/archives/56[^]
Jan Montano19y ago
is Application.EnableVisualStyles(); called in your Program.Main() ? Calling this will enable a winxp like gui feel.