The "What do you think of how my app looks" thread

[chris128]

By the way, how do you make your OK and Cancel buttons equally wide? Do you simply set the Width? I've read that you shouldn't set the Width if you can avoid it so I've always been trying to get them about the same size using the Padding but I don't think there's a value that works...

Yeah I just set the Width property to the same value for both.

Chris: followup question based on my last comment... How does the blur perform under Windows XP? As far as I understand there's no graphic card rendering in XP so it might be really slow.

I use the following code to determine if the blur effect should be used or not:

Dim UseEffects As Boolean = CInt(RenderCapability.Tier >> 16) > 1

because any machine with a Tier of 0 or 1 is probably not going to be able to handle the blur with decent performance (more info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...lity.tier.aspx )