Flatten That Combo Box, Man!

By Stacey Brown, published on 05 Sep 2003 | Filed in

In .NET, Microsoft has given us many things to work with. It's nice how they standardized properties like Text and Name on most controls. However, what's the story with the Flat look

Some controls have a flat look as a property, either through the FlatStyle property or the Border property. I love the flat look and have been using it for all my controls, except one. The combobox. Do you know how funny a data entry form looks when all its text boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, command buttons,

Download the source code and see how to do it!

Note: This is based on source code published on CodeProject by Carlos H. Perez, and has been ported to VB.NET

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