WinForms, skins - WinForms Team Blog

In last week’s WXI Skin announcement post, I mentioned that our latest vector skin includes certain API-based options. This post will explain why you may want to use these options, and how they can help you create a unified appearance within your WinForms...

Dmitry (DevExpress)

6 June 2022

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WinForms — New WXI Skin

Over the years, we’ve done our best to update the DevExpress WinForms Skin library and associated API settings (for example, RibbonControl.RibbonStyle ) to mirror Microsoft’s design language. Our next release will be no exception in this regard. v22.1...

Dmitry (DevExpress)

19 May 2022

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WinForms — New Winter Joy Vector Skin

2021 is slowly coming to an end. We at DevExpress would like to wish you all the very best in the coming year. As a small token of our appreciation, we’ve created a new Winter Joy vector-based skin/theme for our WinForms product line . This new skin includes...

Dmitry (DevExpress)

9 December 2021

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WinForms Tips & Tricks — HTML & CSS Syntax Editor

It’s been a couple of weeks since we released our WinForms HTML & CSS Templates option (an entirely new approach to WinForms app design). The DevExpress HTML & CSS Template option for the WinForms platform allows you to re-imagine/re-design our...

Dmitry (DevExpress)

30 November 2021

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WinForms — Skin Patches

As you may know, a few years ago we overhauled our WinForms Skin Editor . This new tool – what we now call "Skin Editor v2" - is superior to its predecessor in every possible way: it includes a more discoverable skin element hierarchy, customizable...

Dmitry (DevExpress)

8 April 2021

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WinForms - Tips & Tricks (May 2020)

This month’s Tips & Tricks post includes a few examples and ways you can tweak our WinForms UI components. We hope this information will be of value as you explore the capabilities of our WinForms product line. How to Distinguish Light from Dark Skins...

Dmitry (DevExpress)

21 May 2020

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WinForms Webinar Recap and Survey

A few days ago we hosted our “What’s New in v19.2” webinar. Our thanks to everyone who attended the event. If you were unable to attend, feel free to review the recording on our YouTube channel . We received a number of questions during the webinar and...

Dmitry (DevExpress)

5 November 2019

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WinForms - Early Access Preview (v19.2)

We are about two months away from our next major release (v19.2). As part of our ongoing commitment to engage the DevExpress developer community, we wanted to share our progress and give you the opportunity to test major new functionality before we wrap...

Dmitry (DevExpress)

20 August 2019

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WinForms - Skin Colors and LookAndFeel (v18.2)

Our upcoming v18.2 release brings changes to the way control background colors are handled in conjunction with skins....

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

12 October 2018

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WinForms Skins - New Office-Style Color Swatches (v18.1)

The unspoken rule is: when Microsoft releases a new Office suite, our DevExpress designers draw a new set of skins to emulate the fresh Office appearance. We promised in our 2018 roadmap that we would deliver a vector-based Office inspired skin, to follow on from The Bezier, the latest skin we released....

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

21 May 2018

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