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Is there a way to have a windows form app hosted in IE use the ‘look-and-feel’ of the current OS/browser, similar to how everything looks when the app is run in the debugger? For instance I’m debugging in VS2008 and it looks great, but when I view the app in IE7 or IE8 on Vista or Win7 all the controls look like Netscape navigator circa 1996. Buttons, labels, scrollbars, datagrids etc, is there a general setting to change this?
I’m currently compiling for .Net 2.0.
Thanks.
When you run the app in the debugger, it goes through your Program.cs.Main() method which call System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles(). Are you coming in via some different entry point when hosting in IE? One that would not call System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles() perhaps? If so, you can add the call to EnableVisualStyles()–just make sure it’s only called once or it will puke on you. Wrap it in a Try-Catch and gulp any System.InvalidOperationException.