Windows look/style/appearance in Visual Studio VB

[BvU]

Embarrassed having to ask: My windows in VS 2022 (on W10) look like

when I would like them to look like

and I can't *&*&* find what caused it and how to get back

Any suggestions where to look ?

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[phinds]

You have the form border style set to single. Try other settings.

 

[BvU]

Thanks for replying. But it's not that easy:

Only one that gives a different picture is "None" (which does what it should do).

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[phinds]

Only one that gives a different picture is "None" (which does what it should do).

Huh. Well, I'm out of ideas, other than perhaps re-installing VS.

 

[BvU]

Hesitating to do that -- afraid of making things worse -- but probably the only way out.

Funny to see that MDI child windows look as expected, but the parent window doesn't:

formborderstyle of normal windows do follow Sizable/Fixed expectations; only the looks are wrong.

Oh, well...

[edit] No reason to be so pessimistic: download and install over 200 GB in half an hour. But the problem remains as it was...

[more edit] copy the .exe, .dll, .pdb, deps.json and runtimeconfig.json to another PC and install runtime .Net 8.0 there: still problem !

SO you think the problem sits inside one of those five files.
However: running a .exe from an old project that used to look OK also has the problem.
Makes you think the problem does NOT sit inside one of those five files.

Tried .NET 7 but no difference.

Flabberghasting ! Where to look now ?


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