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WinForms : Form loses visual style when opened as Modal

I am using DevComponents components to create forms and as you know these components come with a StyleManager that user can change the visual style of a form. the problem is when i try to open these forms as Modal, they lose their visual style and switch back to original windows style.

this is the code from Form1.Designer (as i mentioned i am using OfficeForm) :

Partial Class Form1
    Inherits DevComponents.DotNetBar.OfficeForm
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.
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this is the code which i use that opens form as MDIChild which works just fine :

Public Sub OpenMDI(ByVal frm As Form)
    frm.MdiParent = MainMenu
    frm.Show()
End Sub

this is the code i am using to open form as Modal :

Form1.ShowDialog()

and these are the screenshots with and without visual styles (with - without)

Solution

  • Set EnableGlass property of from to False

    eg. :

    Form1.EnableGlass = False;