Craig:

> As for my posting, there are lots of developers who have no idea there are UI guidelines for Windows applications

That was my point, you should have told him it was a generally accepted UI guideline. If you don't tell him and he is not already familiar with these guidelines, he still won't know they exist after reading your post.

It's ok to say he shouldn't mess around with the color properties but at least educate him in the process.

Daniel