I hope someone can help me with this.
I am running Windows XP.
If I have WindowBlinds loaded, and open a project under Visual Studio 2008 (a C# Windows Forms project), Visual Studio automatically changes the size and locations of all my controls on all my forms.
A little experimentation, and help from MS tech support, has led me to the realization that this only happens if I've loaded WindowBlinds. More specifically though, it only happens if the theme under the display properties "Themes" tab is set to "Modified Theme", which is something WindowBlinds does.
Even if I unload WindowBlinds, the problem still persists until I set the Theme back to something predefined, like "Windows XP" or "Windows Classic". The problem does not occur with either of those.
Also, I've noticed that while WindowBlinds is loaded, I can go into the "Themes" tab and change the theme all I want, but when I exit the display properties dialog and re-enter, it will be reset to "Modified Theme". I'm guessing WindowBlinds is just overriding whatever I do there to maintain things the way it wants them.
Can anyone help me? I love WindowBlinds and all, but I've gotta work with Visual Studio, and I can't have it making unwanted changes to the size and location of all my forms and controls every time I load a project!!
have you tried in WB configuration;
settings > change the look of an app > add per application setting = add VS to be excluded
ohmigosh! of course! thanks bichur!
I gave you some karma for that quick response!
did it work?
Yes it did.
A little more experimentation revealed another thing: the problem only occurs with some skins. For example, among the default skins installed with WindowBlinds, "Leo" causes the problem (and is my favorite), but "Diamond" and "Aero Metal" do not.
I think it has something to do with the specific changes that the skins force WindowBlinds to make. In fact, I think it might come down to whether the size of window titlebars in the skin happen to be exactly the same size as titlebars would be without WindowBlinds.
Anyway, I'm not sure about all that, but adding the per-app setting to not skin devenv.exe fixes the problem.
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