Thinking Out Loud

• Skins
• v2011.2
• WinForms
• WPF

WPF Theme Designer (v17.2)

As you know, a typical app-wide color scheme consists of numerous palettes/colors/shades. Without the proper tools, creating your own custom theme can be incredibly tedious and time consuming process - a process that very few people willingly tackle....

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

12 December 2017

WPF Themes – VS 2017 & Office 2016 Black (v17.2)

Our most recent release (v17.2) ships with three Visual Studio-inspired themes. These themes are a great option for those who prefer a Dock-based UX versus MDI or SDI interfaces. In addition to use within dock-based apps (apps that mirror the functionality...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

30 November 2017

DevExpress Dashboard - Compact Web Theme, RTL, High DPI and Touch (Coming soon in v16.1)

I thought I'd end this week with our first blog post on our upcoming updates to DevExpress Dashboard. Quick reminder to those who've not used it or tried our demos - DevExpress Dashboard only ships as part of our Universal Subscription and allows you...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

26 May 2016

WinForms Themes - Office 2016 (coming soon in v15.2)

Thanksgiving weekend wouldn't be complete without a few screenshots for our WinForms customers. Office 2016 Black WinForms Theme Office 2016 Color WinForms Theme We'd love to hear your thoughts on these 2 new themes? Are you likely to use them vs existing...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

27 November 2015

WPF Themes - Office 2016 (Coming soon in v15.2)

Though not a radical departure from Office 2013, v15.2 adds 3 new Office 2016 inspire themes to our WPF Theme collection: Office 2016 Black | Office 2016 White | Office 2016 Colorful In the following screenshot, we've applied the Office 2016 Colorful...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

16 November 2015

WinForms - High DPI Support (Coming soon in v15.1)

Thought I'd quickly mention an upcoming update to our WinForms Skins/Themes... With v15.1, we've enhanced the appearance of DevExpress skin/theme elements to better support high resolution screens. Skin elements now automatically adjust size and margins...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

1 June 2015

WinForms Theme Color Mixer(Coming soon in v14.1)

If you are an active Universal or DXperience Subscriber, you should have already received your link to Beta 1 of v14.1. If targeting the WinForms platform, you may have noticed our new Application Theme Color Mixer...a quick and easy way for you and your...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

21 May 2014

DevExtreme CSS Theme Builder (Coming soon in v14.1)

Our upcoming release will introduce a new Theme Builder for our client-side HTML 5 widgets - a standalone app allowing you to modify themes we ship with our DevExtreme HTML 5-JavaScript product line. The DevExtreme Theme Builder has been designed to help...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

13 May 2014

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...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

13 November 2013

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...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

3 July 2013