.Net 2.0 - ControlPaint.DrawButton uses wrong color

Question

When I call ControlPaint.DrawButton, the button that is drawn is in the non-themed background color. How do I draw a control that looks like a button (including themed drawing) in .Net 2.0 (C#)?

Answer 1

The ControlPaint methods do not support visual styles, that's why it looks all messed up (try taking out this line of code in your Program.cs Application.EnableVisualStyles(); and everything will look like that button and you'll see what I mean.)

The correct method you should be using is the ButtonRender.DrawButton(..) method. This does honor visual styles and will thus render correctly. Quick sample:

            ButtonRenderer.DrawButton(this.CreateGraphics(), 
            new Rectangle(20, 20, 100, 40),"Click me!",
            new Font(this.Font, FontStyle.Regular),false,
            System.Windows.Forms.VisualStyles.PushButtonState.Normal);