Show correct style at design time

Question

Hi there. I got a new laptop and installed visual studio 2019 on it. All is well, except for one niggling issue.

In my application XAML I have defined an object to store certain style values:

<Application.Resources>
    <KHSkins:AppSkin x:Key="MyAppSkin"></KHSkins:AppSkin>

(KHSkins is a project we created and that exposes an AppSkin project that, in turn, has a number of properties)

In the XAML of a page:

            <dxg:GridControl x:Name="gSectionDocuments"                               
                             AutoGenerateColumns="None"
                             Grid.Row="1"
                             EnableSmartColumnsGeneration="False"
                             SelectionMode="Row"
                             dx:ThemeManager.ThemeName="{Binding Source={StaticResource MyAppSkin}, Path=DevExpressTheme, Mode=OneWay}"
                             dx:DXSerializer.SerializationID="gSectionDocuments"
                             dx:DXSerializer.StoreLayoutMode="UI"
                             AllowDrop="True"
                             AutoPopulateColumns="False">

The DevExpressTheme property on MyAppSkin has a default value of a specific "Theme Name". Its value is not important. Suffice to say that its default value is one that makes the DevExpress Grid look "flat", whereas the default "Theme Name" makes it look like a Microsoft Office application from the early noughties. AWFUL.

Now please note that this doesn't affect the way it looks at run time. At run time everything's fine and the grid looks exactly the way I want it to look.

But in the IDE when I look at the Designer it looks like bleep

The mad thing is..... On my old laptop, when I open the exact same project with the exact same code in it, it looks fine in the IDE.

Is there some "setting" I've missed in the VS 2019 IDE on my new laptop?

Answer 1

Hi PinoCarafa,

Please try to delete .vs folder which is used to store related configurations of visual studio, and re-open your visual studio.

Best Regards, Dylan

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