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WinForms Metro - How It Made Us Re-Think Our WinForms Application Skin Delivery Model

As you already know by now, DXperience v2011 vol 2 will ship with a Metro-style WinForms skin named Metropolis (yes, we'll be following up with Peter Thorpe who originally suggested the name so we can get him some DX swag). Because this new skin might...

Posted Oct 01 2011, 03:32 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 13 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, WinForms, Themes, v2011.2, assemblies

New WPF and Silverlight Themes (coming in v2011 vol 2)

DXperience v2011 vol 2 will bring those of you targeting the WPF Platform a brand new Theme Editor and 2 new WPF Themes - emulating the Windows 7 and Office 2010 Black Look & Feel. As always, a picture is worth a thousand words... The DevExpres Seven...

Posted Sep 29 2011, 03:17 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, WPF, Themes, Office 2010, v2011.2, windows 7

ASP.NET CSS Style Builder (coming in v2011 vol 2)

DXperience v2011 vol 2 will introduce 2 new Theme Builders - I've already talked about our WPF Theme Editor and now, I'd like to describe our upcoming ASP.NET Theme Builder application - a standalone tool allowing you to modify themes we ship...

Posted Sep 25 2011, 11:10 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 7 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, ASP.NET, Themes, v2011.2, css

The New Name for our WinForms Skin (help me decide)

Thank you for your awesome feedback on new names for our Metro-like skin . Here are the 3 that we love... Metropolis Chromeless Clarity Now it's your turn... Since I've never really done anything with social media and since everyone in the office...

Posted Sep 21 2011, 03:52 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 19 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, WinForms, twitter

WinForms Skins - Blueprint and Dark Style - Coming Soon

To those who cannot get enough Skins...A couple of new WinForms Skins/Themes are on the horizon...the first being the DevExpress Dark Style... The second being the Blueprint Skin (thanks for the suggestion on this one guys) I expect these skins to be...

Posted Dec 16 2010, 02:23 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 26 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, WinForms, XtraGrid, Themes

VCL Org Chart - Minor Enhancements Coming

For those of you who are using the ExpressOrgChart Control for Delphi and C++Builder, the DevExpress VCL Team will be introducing a couple of new enhancements to the Org Chart Control in the next update. The changes are straightforward - Antialiasing...

Posted Aug 24 2010, 10:26 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 20 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, Delphi, VCL, gdi+, org chart

ASP.NET Themes / Skins (coming in v2010 vol 2)

Our ASP.NET team has been busy with a myriad of new features for our entire ASP.NET product line...from a large collection of MVC controls to RTL support. Among the updates we'll introduce in DXperience v2010 vol 2 are 3 new Microsoft Office 2010...

Posted Aug 05 2010, 10:54 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, ASP.NET, Themes, v2010.2, ExMedia

WinForms Office 2010 Theme and Ribbon (Skin) - v2010 vol 1

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a couple of images of our upcoming WinForms Office 2010 Skin. That image demonstrated our WinForms RichEdit control...Here's a look at how other controls look when this theme is applied. For those who are wondering...

Posted Apr 08 2010, 02:14 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 7 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, v2010.1, Ribbon, Themes, Office 2010, Application Menu

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 Windows 7 High Contrast Something we call "Sharp"...

Posted Jun 02 2009, 04:46 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 43 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, v2009.2

The Pumpkin Application Skin - Coming Soon to a Theater Near You...

Ten days ago, Jeff and Amanda published a video describing some of the skins we ship with our Application Wide Skinning Engine ( http://tv.devexpress.com/SkinsPromo1.movie ). In that video, she previewed our upcoming Pumpkin Skin. As always, people can't...

Posted Oct 26 2008, 10:00 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, v2008.3

Application Skins and Themes - What's Next in DXperience

Jeff and Amanda prepared a video describing some of things you can do with our Application Skinning Engine... http://tv.devexpress.com/SkinsPromo1.movie Those of you who hate watching videos but love to hear what we've got in the works, might want...

Posted Oct 17 2008, 12:19 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, v2008.3

Application Themes: The DevExpress Summer Themed App Skin

A few weeks ago, I posted a screenshot of the Summer Skin - Here is a more complete preview of what it will look like...Makes me want to head to the beach! By the way, in an effort to reduce the stampede of questions - we will release the skin with DXperience...

Posted Jun 17 2008, 10:46 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 10 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins

A Skin for All Seasons

Sometimes, I want to kick myself for not being creative enough with the names we choose for a given feature category. A perfect example of this is Skins. We could have called it something elegant...like the SuperDuper Presentation Styling Blow Your Customers...

Posted Apr 03 2008, 01:18 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 17 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, DXperience

It's Beginning to Look a lot like Xmas...

Introducing the DevExpress Holiday Skin - Coming soon to a WinForms application near you...

Posted Dec 10 2007, 01:39 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 43 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, DXperience

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