I have a .Net application cotaining a form which is displayed as dialog box. This works great on windows XP but when I run this EXE on Windows 7 the form background color changes to black.
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I have a .Net application cotaining a form which is displayed as dialog box. This works great on windows XP but when I run this EXE on Windows 7 the form background color changes to black.
ActiveCaptionText will indeed show up as black in Windows 7, this is standard behaviour. On Windows XP, ActiveCaptionText shows up as white as shown below:
I think you need to change the BackColor property to
Controlto get your form to look like how you want it: