minor annoyance with text anti-aliasing (vista vs .net)

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This really doesn't bother me very much, but if anyone knows the reason why text is rendered differently then enlighten me please. :)

 

 

So here's*the*crime scene:

 

 

 

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5476/a2th2.png

 

Magnified:

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8409/a1fd5.png

 

 

Left button has text rendered on Paint event of that button, right button has Text property set to the same text.

 

You can see there is not much difference, though I think right (vista)*version of button looks slightly better.

 

Code that generates .NET button looks like this:

e.Graphics.DrawString("Infinity color", button2.Font, newSolidBrush(button2.ForeColor), x, y);

I don't see why these two buttons don't render the same. Does Vista use newer version of anti-aliasing technology that is not available in .NET?

 

(guess I'll have to go fiddle with win32 api - but I don't want to :P)

 

 

 

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