Change the the Look And Feel

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I have develop a project but its doesn't have nice look like windows 7 forms.I need to change the look of my whole application.How can i do this....Can any please help me.

Posted 8-Dec-11 21:56pm

tkkf87

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Its better to use WPF for making good looking Application. Windows Form have no more functionality in Comparison to WPF. WPF has very good theme support.
Try
http://wpfthemes.codeplex.com/[^]
WPF Themes is a collection of free themes to be used in WPF projects

Posted 8-Dec-11 23:19pm

RaviRanjanKr

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tkkf87 9-Dec-11 6:18am

How could i convert Windows Form to WPF

Philippe Mori 9-Dec-11 20:16pm

You will typically have to rewrite the UI part on the application to do that.

tkkf87 9-Dec-11 6:19am

and how could i use it

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Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-08T21:59:00

Solution 1

You need to use themes.

If you are using WPF or Silverlight - you can get theming support directly - WPF Themes and Skins Engine[^].

Windows forms - start with this nice article - Fancy Windows Forms[^].
Various third parties offer theming solutions.

Posted 8-Dec-11 21:59pm

Abhinav S

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tkkf87 9-Dec-11 4:05am

I haven't any experience with SliverLight can you please tel me how to do it or how a get theming support.

Abhinav S 10-Dec-11 10:03am

Try http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2010/05/31/dynamically-apply-and-change-theme-with-the-silverlight-toolkit.aspx

Philippe Mori 9-Dec-11 20:17pm

Third parties component might be the easiest way to change the look of an existing application with moderate effort.