Mehul Harry's DevExpress Blog

This is much better. I like the theming and allow my end users to pick their theme but in deployment I would have to select the themes I knew covered all controls and deploy them to the themes directory. There wasn't much point in the others unless you were just using one control which I can't imagine many do.

This begs the question: when can we expect a theme designer?  The controls are all great, but the time my designer has to spend matching the look of the controls to his design is insane.

I can appreciate the reasons for wanting to remove the one off themes but I am surprised that you chose to do so given that a large number of customers will already be using them - even if the percentage of customers is small.  The one off themes are good themes.  RedGlass for example is great for making elements stand out - it has a high contrast.  There is no comparable theme that achieves this.

I would have preferred that you adopted both Silver and RedGlass and applied them across all controls.  No doubt there is some effort to do so but such a move would have sent the right message - DevExpress put these themes in - our customers have implemented them - we need to support them properly by expanding their implementation - we won't have partial themes anymore.

So please can you bring them back.  :)

Please bring back the Silver theme for round panel.

We have been using the RedGlass ASPxRoundPanel theme and recently upgraded to 10.2.4. I ran the 10.2.4 ProjectConverter tool as referenced in the article - the skin file was updated, but no images were unpacked. I then removed the upgraded skin file and renamed the .bak file. I ran the 9.2.5 converter (as expected, nothing happened). I expected to see a Web folder created in the App_Themes\RedGlass folder – should I see something else?

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