Overview
VisualStyler.Net is the premium skinning component for developers who wish to skin their winforms applications using any Microsoft Visual style. You are no longer restricted to using the standard 'Lunar' visual styles only available on Windows XP, since VisualStyler can render visual styles on all platforms from Windows 2000 to Windows Vista. With currently over 2000 visual styles to choose from, your applications can now really stand out from the crowd.
Design-time Integration
VisualStyler comes supplied with a Visual Studio add-in which completely extends the Visual
Studio design-time IDE
providing developers with a rich WYSIWYG design-time
skinning experience.
The component uses the latest smart-tag designers, making the component very easy
to setup and configure.
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The smart-tag designer enables you to quickly setup the component and access all of the design-time features. The style browser dialog enables you to browse, preview, and select any visual style from the style gallery. The style import wizard enables you to import new visual styles from any msstyles file or zip archive. |
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Built-in Visual Styles
SkinSoft have ported 10 of the most common desktop themes and styles, and the product comes supplied with the following built-in visual styles.
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| Vista Basic | Vista Aero | OSX Aqua |
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| OSX Leopard | Office 2007 Blue | Office 2007 Black |
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| XP Blue | XP Royale | XP Silver |
As with any other .NET component, VisualStyler is easy to use, just drop the component onto the main form of your application, Select a few properties and away you go, you won't need to modify any of your existing project source code.
Advanced Skinning Technology
Using SkinSoft's existing, high performance skin engine,
your application GUI is rendered fast, accurate and smoothly with no visible paint artifacts or flickering, and because our skin engine is designed entirely in C#
it fully supports windows forms control transparency, font and color customizations.
The entire set of windows forms controls are skinned :- forms, tool windows,
controls, common dialogs, scrollbars, message boxes, win32 controls and even internal winforms
forms.
The
component has a flexible API allowing you to customize the behavior and to target just
forms, forms and controls or even excluding a form or control.
VisualStyler supports the following winforms controls :-
| Controls | Containers | Common Dialogs | ToolStrips |
| Label | Form | OpenFileDialog | ToolStrip* |
| Button | Panel | SaveFileDialog | StatusStrip* |
| RadioButton | GroupBox | FolderBrowserDialog | MenuStrip* |
| CheckBox | TabControl | ColorDialog | ContextMenuStrip* |
| ComboBox | TabPage | FontDialog | |
| TextBox | SplitContainer | PrintDialog | |
| ListBox | FlowLayoutPanel | ||
| CheckedListBox | TableLayoutPanel | ||
| HScrollBar | |||
| VScrollBar | |||
| PictureBox | |||
| ProgressBar | |||
| TrackBar | |||
| ToolBar | |||
| StatusBar | |||
| ListView | |||
| TreeView | Controls | Other | |
| RichTextBox | DateTimePicker | MessageBox | |
| NumericUpDown | MaskedEdit | ExceptionDialog | |
| DomainUpDown | LinkLabel | Native Scrollbars |
*Partial skin support in Version 1.1