Hi, I'm on the 2nd chapter 1st exercise. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, when I entered the text in the field and hit the button i saw nothing.
After looking into it further I realized that color of the box is dark and so is the font, therefore I wasn't able to see anything.

I want to change this and not sure where is the setting to make the change so my application has the MV studio colors and doesn't inherits the colors of the desktop settings. Any help is greatly appreciated.

This is what it looks like on my machine
Thanks,

Z

Workaround: I just changed my windows color scheme and now I'm able to view the title on the form when i click the button.

You can always change the colors of a textbox using the Properties window. When the form is in the Source window, click on the textbox you want to change. You'll see some small "squares" on the edges of the textbox, which tells you Visual Studio has set the focus on that textbox.

Now look at the Properties window in the lower right corner of the screen. (If you don't see it, press the F4 key to call it up.) If you scroll the Properties window, you'll see properties for BackColor and ForeColor. If you click on the righthand column, a dropdown arrow appears. Click on that and you are presented with a list of three tabs (Custom, Web, System) with color choices you can select. The Web tab presents the widest selection. You should be able to select a color combination that you like.

As I mention in the book, Microsoft has spent more money than you and I'll make in a lifetime figuring out User Interface (UI) objects and colors. While it's fun to experiment and explore different colors and learn how to change other properties for user control objects from the Toolbox, my advice: stick with Microsoft's choices for your defaults.

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Thank you DrPurdum I'll look into it.