buttons and text boxes in visual basic 2005

If you've upgraded a VS.NET 2003 project then the Application Framework will be disabled, where it is usually enabled by default in VS 2005. Go to the Application tab of the project properties and see if you're able to enable it. If you are then make sure you enable visual styles too.

Note that if you do this then you will have to start your app with a form and not a Main method. If you're current ly using a Main method to do anything other than create a main form then you will need to move that to the application's Startup event handler.