VB 2005 VisualStyles problem

[nkarnold]

My application seems to be ignoring Enable XP visual styles, which is ticked on in the application properties.

the Toolbar and Menubar, which appear the nice looking shaded blue appear like that whilst in the IDE, but when I run the app, they both go to boring grey.

In the application.designer.vb self generated file, it does have

Public Sub New()
MyBase.New(Global.Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.AuthenticationMode.Windows)
Me.IsSingleInstance = false
Me.EnableVisualStyles = true
Me.SaveMySettingsOnExit = true
Me.ShutDownStyle = Global.Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.ShutdownMode.AfterMainFormCloses
End Sub

If i create a brand new application, just as a test and drop the two controls into that, they appear with visual styles.

So it looks like its something to do with my project, but i can't find out where or why.

any help appreciated.

Cheers

Nig

 

[JohnH]

You could have changed the RenderMode for ToolStrip and MenuStrip to 'System', default is 'ManagerRenderMode', but you see the difference in Designer also so there would have to be code doing it.

 

[nkarnold]

Hi

Both are ManagerRenderMode and it doesn't get changed in the code anywehere.. Im still perplexed at this one.