>Hi people
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>On Kevin Goff's recommendation I got the book "Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Step by Step"
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>In the very first stage they describe creating a simple WPF form with a label, textbox and button.
>I followed it exactly, and the button is the same height as the textbox in the IDE.
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>However after compiling and running it, the button shows up slightly larger and taller than the textbox and the form looks like crap because the button looks mis-sized.
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>How can I make sure that the development and runtime is properly WISIWYG and if this were to happen to a form with many buttons and textboxes, it would look a mess.
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>An image of what I am talking about can be viewed here:
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>http://www.foxite.com/uploads/5fdee885-ecb1-42dc-b555-c6a5a6eb99e6.jpg
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>Notice that in design time the button and textbox appear to have the same height, but in the runtime the button has grown downwards and looks terrible.
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>I am sure it has something to do with the Margin since the button resizes with the form but cannot see what.
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>Thanks.

Further to my oriiginal post *please* , *please* post the XAML for this - without it the discussion raging on this thread will not reach a resolution !