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Win XP style in designer window of VS.Net 2003

I've read many solutions how to get xp style controls in my programs by using a manifest file, but is there anyway of viewing them in the designer as well, so that i can see what my form will look like in the designer, and not having to run it each time to see what its going to look like?

Cheers

[300 byte] By [Gravedigger] at [2007-12-16]
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# 1

Create manifest file for your devenv.exe as well, and name it devenv.exe.manifest, then restart your IDE. Finally, set the FlatStyle property of your control to "System" for the controls to have XP Visual styles at design-time.
-chris

gwapo at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,Windows Forms Designer...
# 2
Thanks. Lazy as I am, I looked around for a VS.Net 2003 devenv.exe.manifest and found a couple. None of them worked. Essentially they differ in the assemblyIdentity element's version attribute value. I then tried both the version number for devenv.exe reported in the file properties dialog ("7.10.3077.0") and the version number reported in VS's About dialog ("Microsoft Development Environment 2003 Version 7.1.3088"). Again, no success.

My devenv.exe.manifest:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity version="7.10.3088.0"
processorArchitecture="X86"
name="devenv.exe"
type="win32" />
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity type="win32"
name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
version="6.0.0.0"
processorArchitecture="X86"
publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
language="*" />
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
</assembly>

Any clue what I am doing wrong?

Regards, Christoph

ckress at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,Windows Forms Designer...
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