Overview
VistaSkin.Net transforms your .NET application GUI to support the Windows Vista Aero styles. As with any other .NET component, VistaSkin is very 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.
Dynamic form shadows
VistaSkin now 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.
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Your applications can now ship with a highly professional Aero apperance no matter what platform they are deployed on. The skin is applied to all of the current windows forms control set :- forms, controls, scrollbars, common dialogs, exception dialogs etc. The component has a flexible API allowing you to customize the skin and to target just forms, forms and controls or even exclude a form or control.
VistaSkin 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