[2005] MonthCalendar Screen Corruption

[Jonny1409]

I am using the monthcalendar control, and when I highlight a range of dates, Ithen can't see the dates I've selected.

(See screenshot)

Does anyone know how I can get round this please ?

[RobDog888]

Does it happen on a new project/form? If not then just delete the control from your form and add a new one, rename it to the old name, etc.

[jmcilhinney]

I've seen something similar with a DTP calendar. I chalked it up to a bug in the control. Have you checked MSDN to see if it's a known issue?

[Jonny1409]

I have jmc - and can't find anything on there.

I've found a message on the forums which alludes to this problem being connected to visual styles - however I'm actually using the Skybound control from your sig so I wouldn't have thought this should be a problem.

[RobDog888]

What if you removed that control ref and used the standard one?

[Jonny1409]

Further digging around has led me to believe that it is a bug, but unfortunately is not yet fixed in 2005.

Also, I've tried turning off the visual styles, and it then works fine.

[Jonny1409]

It does the same RobDogg

[RobDog888]

Hmm, I would think its a bug in the Visual Styles and Skybound as on Vista it works just fine on the default MonthView control.

[Jonny1409]

It certainly looks that way.

I don't suppose there's a way I can turn visual styles off for this form / control only is there ?

[RobDog888]

Hmm, you could either go to allot of work and catch the themeing and modify it or turn it all off completely for your app.

[jmcilhinney]

I don't think it has anything to do with Skybound. As I said, I've seen essentially the same effect in a DTP with no Skybound components in sight. It only happens under very specific circumstances, like changing years and months in a particular order or the like, but the visual effect is the same.

[jmcilhinney]

Maybe it was the MC and not the DTP because I couldn't get the DTP to break. I did get the same effect with the MC though and I had no Skybound components involved.

Note also that in .NET 2.0 there is very little need for the Skybound components. It's been a while since I looked at them but as far as I can recall the only thing they fix in .NET 2.0 is TabControls with Alignment properties not set to Top.

[Jonny1409]

So jmc - are you suggesting I just use the built in 'Enable Visual Styles' line instead of referencing the Skybound equivalent ?

The reason I ask is that I am using the skybound component as I was getting problems with images in my listviews.
I am on .NET 2.0 though - should this not be the case ?

[jmcilhinney]

Like I said, I'm not aware of any visual style issues in .NET 2.0 other than the TabControl. There may be some that I'm not aware of though. Contrary to my own opinion, I don't know everything.

[Jonny1409]

No problem jmc.

Cheers for your help and advice tho - same goes to RobDog.

[RobDog888]

No prob.

The main reason to use skybound controls is to gain better Visual Stlyes under XP and using VS 2003. Sice you are on 2005 no real need.

[Aspnot]

I was hoping to find a better answer here. Oh well... I guess not.

I just finished a few pieces of an app and put it out for a client to test. On their machines (all XP), the MonthCalendar looks like the results in this thread. I wrote it on a Vista machine and didn't know about the problem.

Has anyone found a way around this?