Introducing the DevExpress Holiday Skin - Coming soon to a WinForms application near you...
Awesome!!!
coming soon? i hope wont be late for christmas
Very nice! Mind you, can we please have a southern hemisphere version too? Its the middle of summer here. Sun melted buttons, beach scenes and barbecue icons are probably suitable.
I love the icicle on the menu separator! Very cute!
haahah that looks cool! i wish your skin guys would make that one skin suggested awhile ago that looked like someone sketched the UI on paper. that was badass!
Very nice
How about a VCL version too????
That's absolutely amazing!!!
What can we expect next?
I really like that - would make a great easter egg for some applications... ;)
If DX can make WinForm so beautiful, I can't wait to see what they will do with WPF and Silverlight 2.0!
I like to see the face of competition reading this blog... ;-)
We will deliver a VCL version as well.
>> i wish your skin guys would make that one skin
>> suggested awhile ago that looked like someone
>> sketched the UI on paper
Seconded.
LP,
Dusan
I'd love to see more skins produced.
Both for fun and work.
Nice!
May be you should make seasonal skins also - for summer, autumn, spring? :)
Thirded!
How do we get this to work in DXp 7.3.5?
Already tried and is very cute and shows a lot of the potential of the skins library. Thank you!
Nice, but I have one complaint:
Could you please rename "Xmas 2008 Blue" to "Christmas 2008 Blue" and "XmasSkins" to "ChristmasSkins"? It's only five additional characters and the time has long gone when we're struggling for every additional byte we can scrounge up.
This is a slap in the face to christian programmers who actually remember what Christmas is about.
I wish I was clever.
Thanks for a great product and have a good Christmas and New Year to all at Dev Express.
I don't mind the Xmas since I'm not christian, but agree with Eric. Maybe "Winter" or "WinterHoliday" would have been a better route to go.
How do you show this in 7.3.5? If it is a separate download, I look forward to getting it!
Absolutely amazing.
Not to make this more about religion that skins, but X has been used for well over a thousand years to represent Christ.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Xmas
Whatever you call it, it is amazing and I would love to see spring, St. Patricks, Valentines Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, summer, fall, winter themes. I have not seen the sketched skin, but it has some support so it is probably cool. Not that you have anything other to do than create skins, right?!?!
Way to go guys, that is just awesome! What a cool idea, thinking outside the box!
Excellent guys!!! Now, I need to find a way to convience my guys to update their Devexpress.
Kudos, John, for the enlightenment on Xmas. I think the name is appropriate for DevExpress with the majority of their namespace assemblies start with X.
The people in my company were blown away by this skin as soon as I integrated it into my app. The guys (and gals) at DevExpress continue to make me look like a programming God at my organization. Happy Holidays to Everyone!!
Not very good. but simple
Very nice skin - we loved it.
Just Excelent !
We figured this would be well received and of course knew that someone might not like how we phrased the name of the skin (it's like walking on eggshells).
Other than Shashi - people seem to be enjoying this skin. Not sure what we'll tackle next. Valentines Day is an obvious choice, but I think Groundhog day would be a classic.
One question; will skinned applications work well in a terminal server/citrix environment?
I am starting a new project where our support application will be hosted on an application server and we will use thin clients to work on it. I would love to include skinning like this on that app, but I need to know the performance/network hit compared to traditional app/WPF app. Do you have any metrics on that?
You can always give it a shot Morten - not much work involved in changing a skin. We havent spent anytime on gathering metrics on a terminal server environment.
Very good!
... Summer?
Excellent. This feature really its awesome!
As the end of year holiday season approaches, it's fairly common for some web sites and products to re-skin
groundhog day would be awesome. there is office 2007 pink for valentines day.
halloween is a must have though!
Wow, what a great Christmas gift for my users. Continue to love DexExpress's creative approach to what is all to often a dull world. Might we see more Holiday skins in the future?
It is useless in commercial sense. IMHO you would be better to improve old skins and add new skins to use in serious programs.
Just rolled this out for our internal apps and everyone in the office loves it! Next year we plan on adding this our commercial apps and giving the user the ability to turn it on and off. Great idea :)
dede
Where is the six stars option?
Come on where is it I cant wait, looks seasonally cool
