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Devexpress Checkbutton Blueline border - how to remove

I am currently working on a devexpress project and I am using the checkbutton tool. I have it doing everything I want except for a very annoying sick looking blueline that shows up on appearance.hover and appearance.pressed.
If anything at all I would expect a color that goes with the theme but a constant blueline no matter what skin is selected is annoying and feels like an old html design.
I have tried setting the bordercolor and all but still.
Below is my code of what I have tried by far from form.Designer.cs;
this.cBtnFilter.AllowFocus = false;
this.cBtnFilter.Anchor = ((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Top | System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right)));
this.cBtnFilter.AppearanceDisabled.Options.UseBackColor = true;
this.cBtnFilter.AppearanceHovered.BorderColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
this.cBtnFilter.AppearanceHovered.Options.UseBackColor = true;
this.cBtnFilter.AppearanceHovered.Options.UseBorderColor = true;
this.cBtnFilter.AppearancePressed.BorderColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
this.cBtnFilter.AppearancePressed.Options.UseBackColor = true;
this.cBtnFilter.AppearancePressed.Options.UseBorderColor = true;
this.cBtnFilter.ImageOptions.AllowGlyphSkinning = DevExpress.Utils.DefaultBoolean.False;
this.cBtnFilter.ImageOptions.Location = DevExpress.XtraEditors.ImageLocation.MiddleCenter;
this.cBtnFilter.ImageOptions.SvgImage = global::form.Properties.Resources.icon_filter;
this.cBtnFilter.ImageOptions.SvgImageSize = new System.Drawing.Size(40, 40);
this.cBtnFilter.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(355, 40);
this.cBtnFilter.LookAndFeel.SkinName = "The Bezier";
this.cBtnFilter.LookAndFeel.Style = DevExpress.LookAndFeel.LookAndFeelStyle.UltraFlat;
this.cBtnFilter.LookAndFeel.UseDefaultLookAndFeel = false;
this.cBtnFilter.Name = "cBtnFilter";
this.cBtnFilter.PaintStyle = DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.PaintStyles.Light;
this.cBtnFilter.ShowFocusRectangle = DevExpress.Utils.DefaultBoolean.False;
this.cBtnFilter.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(50, 50);
toolTipTitleItem4.Text = "Show active Only";
superToolTip4.Items.Add(toolTipTitleItem4);
this.cBtnFilter.SuperTip = superToolTip4;
this.cBtnFilter.TabIndex = 39;
this.cBtnFilter.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.Filter_Click);
The attached image is an example of when it is selected and when it is hovered respectively.
At the least if I could completely remove the blue line or change it to the theme color. It would be great.
Am using Devexpress Version 20.2.4

how I solved this is by using the simple button instead and making it act like a toggle button.
this method handles the toggle for me
public Boolean buttonState = false;
private void ToggleButton()
{
if (buttonState)
{
simpleButton.Appearance.BackColor = Color.Red;
buttonState = false;
}
else
{
simpleButton.Appearance.BackColor = Color.White;
buttonState = true;
}
}
this is the button
private void simpleButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ToggleButton();
}
here is the button in Designer.cs
this.simpleButton1.AllowFocus = false;
this.simpleButton1.AppearanceHovered.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Teal;
this.simpleButton1.AppearanceHovered.Options.UseBackColor = true;
this.simpleButton1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(524, 214);
this.simpleButton1.LookAndFeel.SkinName = "The Bezier";
this.simpleButton1.LookAndFeel.UseDefaultLookAndFeel = false;
this.simpleButton1.Name = "simpleButton1";
this.simpleButton1.ShowFocusRectangle = DevExpress.Utils.DefaultBoolean.False;
this.simpleButton1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(157, 150);
this.simpleButton1.TabIndex = 2;
this.simpleButton1.Text = "simpleButton";
this.simpleButton1.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.simpleButton1_Click);
Its quite straightforward. In case anyone has a better way or has need for this, knock yourself(ves) out.
Hopefully in the future, Devexpress will not force blue borders on us.

Scrolling TableLayoutPanel to button click

I set this to make the scrollbar invisble to my tablelayoutpanel:
tableLayoutPanel1.AutoScroll = false;
tableLayoutPanel1.HorizontalScroll.Visible = false;
tableLayoutPanel1.HorizontalScroll.Maximum = 0;
tableLayoutPanel1.VerticalScroll.Maximum = 0;
tableLayoutPanel1.VerticalScroll.Visible = false;
tableLayoutPanel1.AutoScroll = true;
How Can I set to button click scrolling to right and left?
I tried this:
int change = tableLayoutPanel1.HorizontalScroll.Value + tableLayoutPanel1.HorizontalScroll.SmallChange * 40; tableLayoutPanel1.AutoScrollPosition = new Point(change, 0);
but it's scrolled only once time.

Do it this way instead:
int change = tableLayoutPanel1.HorizontalScroll.SmallChange * 40;
tableLayoutPanel1.AutoScrollPosition = new Point(Math.Abs(tableLayoutPanel1.AutoScrollPosition.X) + change , 0);
We need Math.Abs() since the values returned by AutoScrollPosition are negative.

Cursor = Cursors.None for popup in code

Im trying to set the cursor to none in code for a popup but I cant get it to work. The cursor is still shown when it is over the popup. What am I doing wrong?
public void SubWindow_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Key == Key.Enter)
{
TextBlock popupText = new TextBlock();
popupText.Text = "Complete" ;
popupText.Background = Brushes.Transparent;
popupText.Foreground = Brushes.White;
popupText.Width = 130;
popupText.FontSize = 30;
popupText.IsHitTestVisible = false;
popupText.Cursor = Cursors.None;
Popup Popup = new Popup();
Popup.AllowsTransparency = true;
Popup.PlacementRectangle = new Rect(1086, 16, 0, 0);
Popup.IsHitTestVisible = false;
Popup.Cursor = Cursors.None;
Popup_Text.Child = popupText;
Popup.IsOpen = true;
}

Don't set the IsHitTestVisible property of the TextBlock to false:
TextBlock popupText = new TextBlock();
popupText.Text = "Complete";
popupText.Background = Brushes.Transparent;
popupText.Foreground = Brushes.White;
popupText.Width = 130;
popupText.Height = 130;
popupText.FontSize = 30;
//popupText.IsHitTestVisible = false;
popupText.Cursor = Cursors.None;
Popup Popup = new Popup();
//Popup.AllowsTransparency = true;
Popup.PlacementRectangle = new Rect(1086, 16, 0, 0);
Popup.IsHitTestVisible = false;
Popup.Cursor = Cursors.None;
Popup.Child = popupText;
Popup.IsOpen = true;
Also note that your app can only change the cursor when the cursor is actually over one of your app's elements. The "background" of a transparent Popup does not belong to your application so Cursors.None will only apply when you move the mouse pointer over the actual text in the TextBlock.

winform mschart Column chart not centering column on datapoint

Hello I am having a hard time understanding how to get my column chart to be centered over the X-Axis label. IN the chart pic below you will see that I have columns based on 1/2 increments. For my positive series the data starts on the left and ends at the x-axis label. On my negative series the data starts at the x-axis label and continues to the right. How do I get these columns centered over the x-axis label. I don't understand why one series is displayed one way and the other series is displayed a different way.
Screen shot here:
http://i.imgur.com/QuAXUxr.png
Code is below
chartAreaDistributionHalfHour.Name = "ChartAreaDistributionHalfHour";
chartAreaDistributionHalfHour.AxisX.MajorGrid.LineColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightGray;
chartAreaDistributionHalfHour.AxisY.MajorGrid.LineColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightGray;
chartAreaDistributionHalfHour.AxisX.IntervalAutoMode = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.IntervalAutoMode.VariableCount;
chartAreaDistributionHalfHour.AxisY.IntervalAutoMode = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.IntervalAutoMode.VariableCount;
chartAreaDistributionHalfHour.AxisX.LabelAutoFitMaxFontSize = 7;
chartAreaDistributionHalfHour.AxisY.LabelAutoFitMaxFontSize = 7;
chartAreaDistributionHalfHour.AxisX.Title = "Distribution (Half-Hourly)";
chartAreaDistributionHalfHour.AxisY.Title = "Profit/Loss ($)";
chartAreaDistributionHalfHour.AxisY.IsMarginVisible = false;
seriesDistributionHalfHour.ChartArea = "ChartAreaDistributionHalfHour";
seriesDistributionHalfHour.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.Column;
seriesDistributionHalfHour.Color = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
seriesDistributionHalfHour.Enabled = true;
seriesDistributionHalfHour.Name = "distributionHalfHour";
seriesDistributionHalfHourNegative.ChartArea = "ChartAreaDistributionHalfHour";
seriesDistributionHalfHourNegative.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.Column;
seriesDistributionHalfHourNegative.Color = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
seriesDistributionHalfHourNegative.Enabled = true;
seriesDistributionHalfHourNegative.Name = "netLossDistributionHalfHour";
seriesDistributionHalfHourZeroLine.ChartArea = "ChartAreaDistributionHalfHour";
seriesDistributionHalfHourZeroLine.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.Line;
seriesDistributionHalfHourZeroLine.BorderDashStyle = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.ChartDashStyle.Dash;
seriesDistributionHalfHourZeroLine.Color = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
seriesDistributionHalfHourZeroLine.Enabled = true;
seriesDistributionHalfHourZeroLine.Name = "netDistributionHalfHourZeroLine";
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(17, 49);
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.Name = "chartDistributionHalfHourGraph";
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.BorderlineColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.BorderlineDashStyle = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.ChartDashStyle.Solid;
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.Cursor = System.Windows.Forms.Cursors.Cross;
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.Visible = false;
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(1443, 694);
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.TabIndex = 7;
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.Text = "chart2";
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.ChartAreas.Add(chartAreaDistributionHalfHour);
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.Series.Add(seriesDistributionHalfHour);
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.Series.Add(seriesDistributionHalfHourNegative);
this.chartDistributionHalfHourGraph.Series.Add(seriesDistributionHalfHourZeroLine);

TableLayoutPanel changing it's sizing

I have a few tablelayoutpanels in my program in order to lay out different controls in rows. Until recently these were all working correctly, but after a change in server this is no longer the case. A potential cause is a change in screen resolution as I noticed similar problems on other computers running my program.
An example of this problem is shown below
Before the data rows are loaded (from database), the sizing is incorrect. A measurement using the VS designer shows that the size in figure 2 is correct. Interestingly, if I add a blank row to this table then the resizing doesn't happen.
public JobOpMainTable()
{
DoubleBuffered = true;
AutoSize = true;
AutoSizeMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoSizeMode.GrowAndShrink;
DoubleBuffered = true;
BackColor = Color.White;
CellBorderStyle = TableLayoutPanelCellBorderStyle.Single;
headers();
}
private void headers()
{
string[] names = { "Operation", "Est Lab Hrs", "Est UM Hrs", "Act Lab Hrs", "Act UM Hrs" };
for (int i = 0; i < names.Length; i++) header(names[i], i);
}
private void header(string name, int col)
{
Panel pan = new Panel();
pan.Width = widths[col];
pan.Height = 25;
pan.BackColor = Color.Black;
pan.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
pan.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(0);
TextBox txt = new TextBox();
txt.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Microsoft sans serif", 8, FontStyle.Bold);
txt.Text = name;
txt.ReadOnly = true;
txt.BackColor = Color.Black;
txt.ForeColor = Color.White;
txt.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
txt.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.None
pan.Controls.Add(txt);
Controls.Add(pan, col, 0);
}
private int newRow()
{
int row = Controls.Count / 5;
for (int i = 0; i <= 4; i++)
{
TextBox txt = new TextBox();
txt.Width = widths[i];
txt.BackColor = Color.White;
txt.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.None;
txt.ReadOnly = true;
txt.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
txt.Margin = new Padding(0);
txt.Enter += new EventHandler(enterCell);
txt.Leave += new EventHandler(leaveCell);
Controls.Add(txt, i, row);
}
return row;
}
Above is the code I believe is relevant to the problem. The resizing occurs the first time newRow() is called when loading in data: each new box makes the column wider. Again though, the odd thing is this doesn't occur if I add a row from the constructor