drop a scheduler on a form and call it schMain. replace your form1 code with the code below. it will reproduce the issue. in the load event of the form, there's a method called BindForm. if you comment out this line, it works. the resources are all in color like they should be. if you put the line back in, it breaks and they all go gray. i attached screen shots of what i see too. Comment: You should map the Color property of ResourceMappingInfo class to the respective property in your business object in order to solve this issue.