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Sneak peek: More fun with colors and themes in WPF

     

Last week I published a blog post showing off our new color scheme customization dialog in WPF, with only a single example: blue to pink.

Well, Mike, our lead graphics designer, positively chortled with glee, locked himself in the office for 30 minutes with the app (and it was his turn to fill the coffee maker as well) and came out with these. I think their naming took longer than creating them. I present them with no comment, apart from saying they possibly still need some tweaks.

However, I just have to say that these new examples are a direct reflection of just how easy it is to use the color scheme customization dialog. Especially if you're Mike.

Rainy:

rainy

Dark Side:

dark-side

Lilian (very similar to our WinForms skin of the same name):

like-lilian 

Soft Green:

soft-green

Old Windows:

old-win

Windows Se7en:

w7

Published Oct 28 2009, 04:05 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)
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Comments

 

Steve Sharkey said:

Yes yes yes we like - but please a WinForms theme generator of this nature....

October 29, 2009 3:12 AM
 

Marc Greiner [DX-Squad] said:

I start to like the WPF look and feel: no more silly (dare I say stupid) rounded corners.

Was it just me ?

October 29, 2009 5:05 AM
 

Christoph Brändle said:

i love rounded corners, not silly at all

October 29, 2009 8:16 AM
 

Marc Greiner [DX-Squad] said:

@Christoph: maybe I am not enough used to i?

October 29, 2009 8:31 AM

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Julian is the Chief Technology Officer at Developer Express. You can reach him directly at julianb@devexpress.com. You can also follow him on Twitter with the ID JMBucknall.
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