VISUAL STYLES

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VISUAL STYLES

• VB.NET

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What are Visual Styles?

• To make it incredibly simple and obvious, visual
  styles make the controls you use in your VB.NET
  programs fit the natural style designed by your
  operating system (or comctl32.dll)
• An example of visual styles would be the
  difference between the Windows 2000 style buttons
  and the Windows XP/Vista style buttons.

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Example
Windows 2000 Boring styles
Windows XP styles
Note These styles are enabled by default when
you activate visual styles.
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Activation

• To activate visual styles, during the
  initialization period of your program ( right
  under InitializeComponent() ), type this
• Application.EnableVisualStyles()
• Then
• Application.DoEvents()

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This statement is to enable the visual styles.
This statement is normally not needed, but
sometimes the program message queue does not
complete and your visual styles will not enable.
This statement makes sure that all messages are
completed before continuing.