SkinSoft OSSkin.Net

Overview

OSSkin.Net enables software developers to automatically skin their .NET applications from a selection of 10 stunning OS styles and themes. All of the skins are highly compressed and embedded within the product assembly, so you don't have to worry about shipping seperate skin files.

Dynamic form shadows

OSSkin supports dynamic alpha-blended drop shadow effects on all forms and dialogs, a feature unique to our product and available on all platforms. Your application forms will literally spring to life popping right out of the screen.

OSSkin .NET Small Shadow OSSkin .NET Medium Shadow OSSkin .NET Bold Shadow
Small Medium Bold


SkinSoft developed a platform independant skin engine that does not require uxtheme or a 'theme aware OS' such as Windows XP, so your skinned applications will always look the same on all Microsoft platforms from Windows 2000 upwards.

Built-in skins

OSSkin .NET XP Blue Skin OSSkin .NET XP Olive Skin OSSkin .NET XP Silver Skin
XP Blue XP Olive XP Silver

OSSkin .NET XP Royale Skin OSSkin .NET Office 2007 Blue Skin OSSkin .NET Office 2007 Black Skin
XP Royale Office 2007 Blue Office 2007 Black

OSSkin .NET Vista Aero Skin OSSkin .NET OSX Aqua Skin OSSkin .NET OSX Brushed Skin
Vista Aero OSX Aqua OSX Brushed

As with any other .NET component, OSSkin is easy to use, just drop the component onto the main form, Select a few properties and away you go, you won't need  to modify any of your existing project source code. 

The entire set of windows forms control is skinned :-  forms, controls, common dialogs, scrollbars, message boxes, win32 controls and even internal winforms forms. The component has a flexible API allowing you to customize the skin and to target just forms, forms and controls or even excluding a form or control.

OSSkin 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 PrinrPreviewDialog
CheckedListBox TableLayoutPanel
HScrollBar
VScrollBar
PictureBox
ProgressBar
TrackBar
ToolBar
StatusBar Controls
ListView DataGrid
TreeView DataGridView Other
RichTextBox DateTimePicker MessageBox
NumericUpDown MaskedEdit ExceptionDialog
DomainUpDown LinkLabel Native Scrollbars

 *Partial skin support in Version 1.1