VisualStyler supports the new Visual Studio smart tag designers available in the Visual Studio and Visual Studio Express editions, The designer can be activated ant anytime by clicking on the component in the Visual Studio component tray and then clicking on the small arrow on the top right hand corner. This designer panel makes it easy to access all of the design-time features from one convenient location.


VisualStyler designer tasks

The designer exposes the following properties and actions :-

  • Visual Style
    Displays the current visual style and optionally allows you to select a new one.

  • Save As Application Resource
    If this option is checked the visual style will be embedded in the application as a resource, and you do not need to deploy the VSSF file with you application.

  • Browse Visual Styles
    Displays the style browser dialog, allowing you to browse, preview and select a new visual style.

  • Import Visual Styles
    Displays the import style dialog, allowing you to import a new visual style from a MsStyles file or Zip archive.

  • Skin Mode
    Determines how the application is skinned, we recommend you use Automatic skin mode.

  • Target Controls
    Determines which forms and controls should be skinned in the application.

  • Exclude Skin Tag
    Specifies the global exclude tag, any forms or controls whose Tag property matches this value, will not have the skin applied.

  • Shadow Style
    Specifies the form shadow style that is applied to all forms and dialogs.

  • ToolStrip Style
    Specifies the application ToolStrip rendering style.

  • Skin Common Dialogs
    Determines whether to skin the common dialogs such as the OpenFileDialog, FontDialog, this also applies to any win32 system dialog.

  • Register License
    Displays the License activation dialog, if you decide to purchase a licence then you need to register your license details here, in order to unlock the product.