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An experiment showing different form border styles for a WinForms app.

category 'experiment', language C#, created 14-May-2010, version V1.1 (03-Aug-2010), by Luc Pattyn

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This article shows a lot of different form border styles that are available in a WinForm application, using the System.Windows.Form class.

The program

The application is a simple C# program that offers a big form, on top of which 14 more little forms get created and shown. They use zeven different values for the FormBorderStyle property, and half of them have their title bar suppressed by disabling all title bar components (this requires ControlBox=false; MaximizeBox=false; MinimizeBox=false; Text="";).

The entire Visual Studio project is available here; it targets .NET 2.0

The result

Running on Vista or Windows7, the result is like so:

FormBorder1

Running on XP, the result is like so:

FormBorder1

Visual Styles

When an application is launched, one can enable "visual styles" which influences how some Controls get painted; this application contains the necessary logic to let the user choose. Each time the checkbox' checkstate is changed, the new state is saved in a text file, and the application is restarted by calling Application.Restart(); this can be noticed by watching the process ID which gets displayed in the main form's title bar. Apparently the "Visual Styles" don't influence the form's border on Vista.

History

  • Version 1.0 (14-May-2010): Original version
  • Version 1.1 (03-Aug-2010): XP and Windows7 results added

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Copyright © 2012, Luc Pattyn

Last Modified 20-Dec-2024