WTF! .NET 1.1 SP1 gives butt-ugly Groupbox captions!

I decided to upgrade to .NET 1.1 SP1. Then I ran one of my .NET winforms applications which has nested groupbox controls on a winform and FlatStyle set to System so they will be XP themed.

Then I saw that the nested groupbox controls had their captions in bold arial font and this made the caption to be too big and the text wasn't readable. See this screenshot:



As you can see: a butt-ugly caption which is also crippled. This is an existing app, so I didn't do anything. It worked perfectly on .NET 1.1.

What to do? How can this be solved? I googled on this but all I find are some people having the same problem. Needless to say, I'm really pissed off by this. I hope there is an easy fix for this.

Update: It seems that when you add a panel and dock the groupbox inside the panel it works.So I now have to replace all nested group boxes with panels and dock the groupboxes inside these panels.

So Microsoft, how about FIXING this stupid bug A.S.A.P. ?

Published Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:36 PM by FransBouma
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# re: WTF! .NET 1.1 SP1 gives butt-ugly Groupbox captions!

Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:55 PM by David Boschmans
Frans, did you recompile your app against the .NET 1.1 SP1 version? Do you have SP1 installed on the server as well as on the client? Note that there are 2 versions available of SP1: one for XP, etc. and another for Windows Server 2003. I'm interested in the answers because we're planning to upgrade our production environment ...
David

# Repro case of nasty .NET 1.1 SP1 bug in groupbox control, Microsoft please read

Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:50 PM by TrackBack

# re: WTF! .NET 1.1 SP1 gives butt-ugly Groupbox captions!

Friday, January 21, 2005 2:37 AM by KevinT
We had the same problem. Our resolution? Don't install SP1. :-|

I dealt personally with PSS in South Africa who told me that there was no known fix for the issue - in fact they did not seem to even be aware of it all (this was a few months ago). Unfortunatly for some reason i could not repro the bug in a small solution, and obviously i couldn't send them any of our production code, so the only resolution was to not install the service pack at all.

If you do get hold of a hotfix or patch, or can even repro the bug in a simple project, please please please send it to me at kevint@gmail.com

# re: WTF! .NET 1.1 SP1 gives butt-ugly Groupbox captions!

Friday, January 21, 2005 5:14 AM by ru
I "fixed" this by setting the FlatStyle of all nested GroupBoxes to Standard.
This is a really ugly bug.

# re: WTF! .NET 1.1 SP1 gives butt-ugly Groupbox captions!

Friday, January 21, 2005 5:54 AM by Frans Bouma
I've compiled a reprocase, I blogged about this here: http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2005/01/21/358006.aspx

I've tried everything, no luck. the only 'solution' is docking the groupbox in a panel and use the panel to position/size the groupbox. Pretty lame.

# re: WTF! .NET 1.1 SP1 gives butt-ugly Groupbox captions!

Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:22 PM by KRISS
I've got this problem,too...
thank you for your advice,anyway.