With the Visual Studio 2019, Microsoft has refreshed its application appearance. The DevExpress v20.1 WPF Controls will help you to replicate this appearance in your applications.
New Visual Studio 2019 Themes
The following release adds three new Visual Studio 2019-inspired themes to our WPF Theme collection:
Combined with our powerful Docking suite and ThemedWindow that can display Toolbars in its header, new themes provide modern Visual Studio inspired UI:
Follow this link to see the new Visual Studio 2019 themes in action (you need an installation of DXperience v20.1 Beta with demos on your machine):
Visual Studio Docking
New Default DevExpress Theme
DevExpress WPF Controls now use the Office 2019 Colorful theme by default.
Compared to the previous default theme (Office2016White), Office2019Colorful includes the following advantages:
- Lightweight templates for Toolbar and Ribbon items.
- Easily customizable color palettes.
- Seven built-in color presets.
- Reworked templates with better support for appearance properties.
- Templates for WPF PasswordBox, Menu, and ContextMenu controls (starting with v20.1).
To avoid breaking changes in existing projects, the Project Converter tool will apply the Office 2016 White theme to all projects that did not specify a theme. Please refer to the following article for more information on the migration process:
T856665 - The default theme has been changed to "Office 2019 Colorful"
As always, we welcome any feedback. Feel free to post comments below, or contact us via the DevExpress Support Center.
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