Buttons not rendering as XP style

Question

I have a .net WinForms app with buttons that are displaying as XP style (rounded corners) at design time, but Windows 2000 style (square corners) at runtime. My desktop theme is set to XP style. I'm guessing there's an obvious setting that I'm overlooking. Thanks.

Answer 1

In your Program.Main() method make sure you have these 2 lines before Application.Run:

Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

Answer 2

static void Main() 
{
    Application.EnableVisualStyles();
    Application.Run(new Form1());
}

EnableVisualStyles must be called before creating any controls in the application; typically, EnableVisualStyles is the first line in the Main function.

MSDN Reference

Answer 3

There's also an option in project properties called Enable XP Visual Styles that does the same trick... Actualy if you put the code above, this checkbox will become check in the project properties...