Einar,

Does this solve all of the sub-classing issues you were talking about earlier?

~~Bonnie


>EUREKA!!!!!!!
>There is this new control property called UseVisualStyleBackColor that for some reason is True (notice bold). If I set this property to false then things start working just like in 1.1.
>
>Now I've got got to do some reading about UseVisualStyleBackColor which I *think* is related to Application.EnableVisualStyles(); in Main() by default in VS2005.
>
>Any thoughts on the issue are always welcome.
>
>Einar
>
>>I have subclassed the TabPage control (see code further down). This code worked just fine in VS2003, but in VS2005 it doesn't work as expected (i.e. my tabpages are not red)
>>
>>OK here is my code for my subclassed tabpage:
>>

>>using System;
>>using System.Collections;
>>using System.ComponentModel;
>>using System.Drawing;
>>using System.Windows.Forms;
>>
>>namespace WindowsApplication19
>>{
>>	class myTabPage : System.Windows.Forms.TabPage
>>	{
>>		private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;
>>		
>>		public override Color BackColor
>>		{
>>			get { return base.BackColor; }
>>			set { ;	}
>>		}
>>
>>		public myTabPage()
>>		{
>>			InitializeComponent();
>>			base.BackColor = Color.Red;
>>		}
>>
>>		protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
>>		{
>>			if( disposing )
>>			{
>>				if (components != null)
>>				{
>>					components.Dispose();
>>				}
>>			}
>>			base.Dispose( disposing );
>>		}
>>
>>		private void InitializeComponent()
>>		{
>>			this.SuspendLayout();
>>			this.ResumeLayout(false);
>>		}
>>	}
>>}
>>

>>
>>(someone might feel the need to comment that I should not make the backcolor bright red, but this is simply an example <s>)
>>
>>Any clue about what I am doing wrong?