Why do WPF Applications look different between Windows 7 and Windows 8 and can this be fixed?

Question

I\'m really surprised that this question does not appear to have been asked yet... if it has, but I just couldn\'t find it, apologies.

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Answer 1

If you use WPF without custom (explicit) style it is going to use standard windows 7 aero style. In case of windows 8 it is different (aero2).

If you would like to make sure, your application appears same on windows7 and on windows8 as well I recommend to create custom style where you define margin, paddings, fonts, etc by yourself.