TextAlignment Doesn't Work For Label, Text & Money Controls In Grids Any More by Yann Duran

In B2 the "horizontal alignment" setting affected the *control* itself, based on the width that was available from its parent container, centering, or right-aligning the control in that width. I didn't use it (mainly because the results were a bit weird for me), but it made sense for it to do so. The "text alignment" setting did exactly what it said, it aligned the *text* within the control (& was the only way to get the text aligned as required). I used that setting to center, or right-align many displayed values. This behavior was consistent across all controls. Only column headings remained "out of whack", always being left-aligned no matter what alignment was chosen for the column's control (but that's a different problem).

Now, in RTM, all of the text alignments that I've set for "label" or "money" controls (there may be others that I haven't used, or tested) are now *ignored*, & the setting that formerly aligned the *control* is now the only way for *text* in those controls to be aligned the way I want. BUT, for a "label" control, "text" control, and "summary" control, the behavior remains the way it used to be.

Now it's bad enough that the behavior was changed so radically in the first place, "by design", as it means that controls that were given a specific desired behavior by the developer suddenly started behaving differently, but the BIG problem is that the behavior is now *inconsistent*, depending on which control you're dealing with.

The major problem is that there is now inconsistencies in the way you have to set alignment for different controls.

This post in the LS forum, http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/thread/5a0296a6-0ffd-4883-91f2-e214f7c26790/, contains more details & discussion.

The issue has also been confirmed by Eric Gruber.

"I'm clear on the issue you're seeing now, unfortunately I don't have a very satisfying answer. It looks like the change was an unintentional regression specific to those properties on controls within the grid. "