To give your textboxes a distinctive look has always been a hassle. In the old VB6 days it was almost not possible. The only thing you could do, was to incorporate the textbox into a ActiveX-control and set the looks of the ActiveX-Control.

With the advent of VB.net there seem to be 3 distinctive ways to accomplish this task. With the XPTextbox-control I tried them all and will explain them shortly and point out the advantages and disadvantages. More...