Visual Studio Forms Designer UI Looks Like WIN7?
20:57 17 Jun 2026

I'm using Win11 and Visual Studio 2022. When designing a windows desktop form in the IDE it shows windows UI elements from windows 7. When running my app it shows windows 11 UI elements and does not show the window at the same resolution as in the IDE. Anyone know why this is?

How it looks when runningRunning App

How it looks in the IDEIDE Form Designer

I'm not looking to have it in the WIN7 looking UI. I'm more interested in why VS still shows WIN7 and why the difference in resolution / sizing. I did have to re-arrange some of the elements to keep them from being cut off in the running app.

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