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WinForms: New Themes and Design Time Enhancements (What's New in 13.2)

No release would be complete without a new set of app-wide themes for our WinForms users. 13.2 will ship with 3 new Visual Studio inspired themes (Blue, Light and Dark). The following is an example of the Visual Studio 2013 Blue Theme. In addition to...

Posted Nov 13 2013, 03:24 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 8 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, Themes, Visual Studio 2013, 13.2, Smart Tags

New WinForms Office Inspired Themes

Wanted to share two of our upcoming themes for WinForms - Office Dark Gray and Office Light Gray - with you. We expect to release these new themes in an upcoming minor update. Let me know what you think....which of these themes are you most likely to...

Posted Jul 03 2013, 01:03 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 16 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, WinForms, Themes, office 2013

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

Metro Style WinForms Skin (coming soon in v2011 vol 2)

So we need your help - we've got this brand new shiny WinForms Skin in the works and we're not sure what we should call it. Give us your thoughts and the person who suggests the best name for this new Metro-like or Zune-like (fill in the blank...

Posted Sep 15 2011, 04:01 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 54 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, Themes, Build Conference, zune, metro, skin

WPF Theme Editor by DevExpress (coming soon in v2011 vol 2)

The upcoming release of DXperience for WPF developers will include numerous new features - among them a shiny new application - the WPF Theme Editor. Before I get into the details, let me preface things with the following: This application uses 3 open...

Posted Sep 14 2011, 07:40 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 10 comment(s)

Filed under: WPF, Themes, Build Conference, editor, xaml

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

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

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