Button Style changed to win2000

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I changed my pc from WinXp to Win7. But I'm continuing to use VS2005.
Now an old project (may be created with VS2002) have a strange behaviour.
All the button/edit style has no visual effect and it has the look of win2000. (On XP this was not happens)
This image explains the problem:
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The more strange thing is that if I run the application ouside VS the style are all ok, but when debugging they came back to win2000 style (both debug and release).

I create a new empty MDI-MFC application (like the original one) and then running into VS the styles are ok X| .
Searcing for differences into the 2 folders I found some differences in the project file. But I think not important details.
One strange thing is that in the new application is absolutely missing the manifest... can the problem be related to that file?:~

I found also any article that explain the problem... do you have any link to suggest to me? :doh:

Thanks

Posted 3-Nov-10 23:08pm

Russell^'

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In addition to what E.F. Nijboer already wrote, be aware about how VS2002/2003 and VS2005 handle the manifest:

On Visual Studio 2002/2003, when you create a new project, a text file with extension .manifest is created and added to the solution. To embed it in te resources you should add it to your .rc file as an RT_MANIFEST resource type.

On Visual Studio 2005 and newer, when you create a new project, some pragmas are added to your stdafx.h file:

C++

#if defined _M_IX86
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_IA64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='ia64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_X64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='amd64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#else
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#endif

This informations are used later by the Manifest Tool (i.e. mt.exe) to create a manifest and embed it into the resources of the executable (after the linking step).

Posted 4-Nov-10 6:57am

Sauro Viti

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E.F. Nijboer · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-04T00:04:00

To get the xp look the application would need to have a manifest that indicate this for your application. You would either need to add it in the resources or place it in the directory of the application.

It's explained here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa289524%28VS.71%29.aspx[^]

Good luck!