visual style of controls in compactframework

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Conrad

Does anybody know where to go, what to do or knowing about the
possibility of control styles (for instance a button control) to be
used in the Compact framework (mobile devices) and to change it to
windows XP style?

In the Compact framework (mobile devices) environment, in the toolbox a
button looks like a windowsXP styled control, however when used, it
looks more like a window-98-look-a-like styled button.

Compared to application development in VS2003/2005, if I'm building
just a normal winform application, it is possible to use
"application.visualstyles" and setting the Flat Style property of a
button control to "system". Controls (button) in the CompactFramework
environment does not offer such a method and propertysetting.

Thanks
 
Since the standard set of windows controls wrap the native controls on the
platform you are running on they adopt the standard look and feel of the
host. Windows Mobile for example doesn't have XP style buttons and controls,
custom CE devices may have all sorts of different shells. If you want to
achieve a specific look regardless of your platform you can either write
your own custom controls or look at existing third-party ones.

Peter
 
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