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Application Wide Skins & Themes...More on the Way in DXperience v2009 vol 2

     

In our continuing effort to address your business needs, we will be introducing a number of new Skins/Themes in the next major release of DXperience.

They will include the following:

The Darkroom

DevExpress Darkroom Theme

Windows 7

DevExpress Windows 7 Theme

High Contrast

DevExpress High Contrast Skin

Something we call "Sharp"

DevExpress Sharp Theme

 

Something we call "Foggy"

DevExpress Foggy Theme

If you have any questions regarding these new themes or any we currently ship with our products, feel free to write to us - info@devexpress.com or support@devexpress.com

 

Published Jun 02 2009, 04:46 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)
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Emmanuel Claus said:

Yes !!! ;)

Really like the "Darkroom" and "Sharp" ones.

June 2, 2009 7:15 AM
 

Luca Poretti said:

Very good, this is the taste I'm looking for my LOB applications. Skin like SpringTime are nice, but not look so "professional" ...

thanks in advance ...

LP

June 2, 2009 7:16 AM
 

Max Kosenko said:

Foggy and Darkroom are really useful. Thanks!

June 2, 2009 7:45 AM
 

Claudio Piffer said:

wow!!!

DevExpress team never ceases to amaze me!!

Thank you very much

best Regards

June 2, 2009 8:06 AM
 

Nathanial Woolls - DX Squad said:

Gorgeous :)

June 2, 2009 9:11 AM
 

Masa Ito said:

Thumbs up - love them!  I like spring, winter etc., but need more of these types than the fun ones...

June 2, 2009 9:14 AM
 

Heiko Mueller said:

Absolutly GREAT!

Thank you very much.

June 2, 2009 9:24 AM
 

Boris Bosnjak said:

Awesome!

June 2, 2009 9:38 AM
 

Abaid-ur-Rehman Zulfi said:

Any new skins for ASPXperience Suite?

June 2, 2009 10:26 AM
 

Neal said:

Thank you DX!  We appreciate your listening to our last feedback to provide more professional themes/skins and you have.  This will add a great professional touch to our apps and keeping us unique which is one of the major selling points of the DX suite - not another Office looking app! :)

Take the rest of the day off! :)

June 2, 2009 10:59 AM
 

Peter Thorpe said:

I really like these don't know if it's just me but foggy sharp and the dark room look a bit WPF to me think it's the close minimize and maximize controls.

Anyway very nice clean design good for business stuff as much as I do like to give my users the fun skins as well it's not always appropriate.

June 2, 2009 11:10 AM
 

Steven Rasmussen said:

Is it me or does the 'Darkroom' look very Adobe-esque?  Very cool!!!  Keep-em coming!!!

June 2, 2009 11:31 AM
 

Sigurd Decroos said:

Darkroom all the way! That dark look is becoming more and more popular nowadays. Great job!

June 2, 2009 11:33 AM
 

Jerrie Pelser said:

Yeah! These themes look VERY nice.  They're nice and clean and much more professional looking than some of the current themes.

Good work!!!

June 2, 2009 5:34 PM
 

Saif said:

I like! I really like! Making winforms look like Adobe Air and WPF...oooOOOH. I like!

June 2, 2009 7:06 PM
 

Alex Danvy [DX-Squad] said:

I'm in the process of getting Windows 7 logo so the Windows 7 theme is welcome. I can see that it looks like the "Windows Basic" OS theme. What about an aero theme ? What about the Scenic Ribbon too ?

June 2, 2009 8:16 PM
 

Phillip Roux said:

Looks great! Looking forward to see these with VCL as well.

June 2, 2009 9:40 PM
 

Carl Clark said:

The Darkroom - really cool.

June 2, 2009 11:23 PM
 

Adam said:

Will these be available for the VCL (pleasessssssss)

June 3, 2009 12:28 AM
 

Daniel Rieck said:

Darkroom looks good, but can you please change the name. I don't speak English as my first language, and had to look up darkroom in wikipedia to realize that's the room where you develop photographs -- I've only heard of it in the context of gay clubs.

June 3, 2009 3:22 AM
 

Chloe Anfield said:

I like the look of Sharp and The Darkroom. There seems to be some artistic flair in-house at DX - any chance of this being directed at creating some icons for use in XAF generated business applications ;) ?

June 3, 2009 6:14 AM
 

Scary Monster said:

Suggest "Ebony" as a better name for "Darkroom" theme. Notwithstanding these themes are great. Keep 'em rollin'...

June 3, 2009 6:17 AM
 

Peter said:

I love all the new Skins, it's always a surplus to let customers decide which theme they go with. It seems a little feature but it makes customer love or just use your application!

June 3, 2009 7:31 AM
 

Renaud Bompuis said:

Wow, really really cool.

These new skins are awesome and will make a great impact.

June 3, 2009 9:17 AM
 

Karl Rostock_2 said:

Hi ,

I am happy you are releasing new skinz but please can you do something with the tabs, i have found it extremely difficult to create slanted tabs like you get in VS2008.

June 4, 2009 6:28 AM
 

Peter Groemer-Mrazek said:

Great Skins & Themes!

But: I'm missing such Themes/Skins like "Royal Noir" and "Embedded Style" (directly from Microsoft) Therse have a unique Color-Scheme and i love especially the "Embedde Style Theme" with its dark blue (and a touch of green) colors ...

June 4, 2009 4:44 PM
 

Dennis Sourvanos said:

Windows 7 is very cool!

June 4, 2009 5:19 PM
 

Hans Henrik Holven said:

I have receeived reports that using the current Skins & Themes is adding in the area of 50 MB to the application, and reduces its performance.

How is this in the new update?

June 4, 2009 6:13 PM
 

David said:

These look great, but what I wold really appreciate is something that looks reasonably modern, but worked efficiently on Terminal Server/Citrix over low bandwidth connections. Currently users have to select the "flat" style which works, but looks very dated.

June 4, 2009 8:36 PM
 

Mihaela Mihaljevic Jakic said:

Please, port these to the Delphi VCL suite as well.

June 4, 2009 9:02 PM
 

Tom said:

It would be nice if you developed a set of icons to go along with these skins and/or the GUI controls in general.

June 4, 2009 9:03 PM
 

Mario Howard said:

I also would appreciate a set of icons VERY much

June 5, 2009 6:48 AM
 

A. Mummenhoff said:

I'm very happy that there are more and more skins, specially the new darkroom is very aesthetic. It is the opposite of a skin, I'm waiting for: ererything in white, so that the application looks like a well design brochure, like one of the prospects where high class fonds are advertised.

June 5, 2009 9:13 AM
 

Robert Gehrsitz said:

Will any of these themes make it into the VCL side of the house?

June 5, 2009 11:09 AM
 

Maurix said:

Will this be available for VCL?

June 5, 2009 1:36 PM
 

Sergey Ivanov said:

Great! Please migrate this theme to VCL!

June 5, 2009 1:44 PM
 

Anuraag Sanwal said:

hope the darkroom is also for ASPx

cos the ASPx blackglass theme still has some white background in dropdowns etc.

June 8, 2009 1:58 AM
 

Csaba Balázs said:

Business Skins are very usefulls (Win7 and sharp) but you should pack it in separated assemblies because the size of distributed package.

June 8, 2009 4:05 PM
 

Andy H said:

The 'High Contrast' looks better than other attempts at the same kind of look ive seen, but im still not a fan.

Is there a technical reason people keep using that style? Or is it just for nostalgia?

June 9, 2009 7:22 AM
 

Marius Zemaitis said:

Darkroom and sharp are super skins.

+ vote for porting to VCL.

June 10, 2009 2:01 AM
 

Gerald Koeder said:

Looks really great!

+1 vote for porting to VCL !!

June 13, 2009 8:38 AM
 

The One With said:

In my previous post I have explained how to customize the appearance of the AgMenu Control . The template

August 3, 2009 7:51 PM
 

ctodx said:

We're just about to release v2009.2 and it would be a good idea to have an "accumulator"

August 20, 2009 8:30 PM
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