如何使Mono / Winforms应用程序看起来像一个现代应用程序？

Question

When I write a application in Mono with the Winforms GUI toolkit, it looks pretty native (ofcourse, because it is.), but it looks old, like an application that was made for Windows 98. I searched in Visual Studio projects, into the GUI code generated by the designer, but I don't see what the difference is. The VS designer also imports System.Windows.Forms, but it looks nice and modern, not old.

Back in the days, when I was codign in Visual Basic (not the .Net kind), we did that with a manifest file, that worked nice (on Windows XP, Vista or 7 wasn't released back then.). But I doubt that a manifest file is the solution here, as I cannot find anything relating to this on the internet.

So, how do I make a Mono application look like a modern Winforms application?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Application.EnableVisualStyles(); //Do this before creating your first form.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.application.enablevisualstyles.aspx