Undefined objects and unknown namespaces. I'm trying to help a lot of people, so I don't have time to figure out weird snippets with NOTE: If I ask for code, please provide something that I can drop directly into a project and run (including XAML), or an actual application project. If my reply answers your question, please mark this post as answered. Matt Small - Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Forum Moderator See the full list of articles in the series.I tested this and have no problems with accessing the Segoe UI font using this HTML: Moreover, you can embed it to your website with font-face support. Join me tomorrow when I talk about adding professional looking menus to your app. Download Segoe UI font for PC/Mac for free, take a test-drive and see the entire character set. LblTitle.Font = New Font(Font, FontStyle.Bold) LblTitle.Font = new Font(Font, FontStyle.Bold)

We just learned you wont be able to do it in the designer, so instead youll have to do it in code: Ok, ok but how do I make a bold label use Segoe UI? In our case the parent is the Form and were explicitly setting the font to be bold for our label to be Bold Microsoft Sans Serif. Why is this? Every control on your form will have the same font as the parent unless specified otherwise. However, the problem with doing this is now every control on the form except the label you want to bold will be Segoe UI font. What if you want to bold a title? Simple, right? Just click the Font property of the label you want to bold: And if you set the AutoScaleMode of the form to Font then all of the controls on the form will scale to fit the larger font: Thats all you have to do to use Segoe UI font in your app. Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load So you cant just hard-code the Font property of the form to be Segoe UI (or your app will look like utter crap in Windows 2000 & Windows XP).Īnd thus this simple snippet of code to use Segoe UI on Windows Vista & 7 while still using the default system font in Wind& XP. The problem is that Segoe UI is only shipped with Vista & 7 versions of Windows. Problem: Segoe UI isnt in Pre-Vista systems Not only that, but if you use the font on the right instead the Microsoft Sans Serif your app will be out of place in Windows Vista & 7, since every other app in Vista & 7 uses the Segoe UI font. Its quite obvious that the Segoe UI font is slightly larger and more legible. On the right Im using the default font that every Windows Forms app uses: Microsoft Sans Serif. On the left Im using the default system font in Windows Vista & 7: Segoe UI. If you want place font to your site (upload to your server) for all users (not only if they have it on PC) you need to buy Web License for it. See the ugly font in the window on the right: It is legal if you don't upload it on you site, if you just specify like font-family: Segoe UI, Trebuchet MS, Lucide grande, sans-serif its legal. Especially when compared to Microsofts own apps. NET app on Windows Vista or Windows 7 unaltered you might notice the fonts look a little funky.

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