My First Post! Im new to .net and have been programming database apps in vb6 for plenty of years... I have a question though... I created a quick "button and textbox" app and I immediately noticed that the way it displays the buttons and textboxes on the screen in runtime is different then that in design time... Is there a setting i need to change? Btw i am running XP as well... thanks for reading PS... it seems that my ENABLE APPLIACTION FRAMEWORK option under APPLICATIONS is greyed out, and I have tried to change my display styles as well, no use so far