Enabling Visual Styles

Windows XP introduces a new look and feel to the Windows user interface. This new interface provided controls that have rounded corners and that change colors when you pause your mouse over them. By default Windows based applications created with Visual Basic automatically support visual styles known as XP Themes.

By default this is enables through the My Project interface

If you create a simple form with a button on it and start the project. Notice what happens when I pass the mouse over the button

If we turn this off notice what happens when we run the same application