Whenever the MessageForm is shown on my computer, there is no border or any other nice formatting. I've included a screen shot. This is the MessageForm shown when the password is incorrect, but this happens whenever I call it also.



I'm using Win2k Pro, sp4.

Hrm... it could be that you have a display setting that is preventing the USER_DRAW option on the MessageForm from being handled properly.  What are your display settings, like resolution, color depth, etc?

1280x768

32 bit



Other message classes work great, like the InfoBox variations.

That's strange... we don't have a computer with Win2K SP4, but I have a virtual machine that I could install it on and see what's happening.  However, if you need it in a hurry, you can download the source code and build it in debug.  Once that's done, you can open the ThemedWindowBase.vb file (in the MicroFour StrataFrame Base solusion in the Windows folder) within your project and step through the drawing.  Most likely, there is an exception being thrown somewhere because of some unsupported feature in Win2K SP4.