Making windows forms look more attractive

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I want to make the windows form look more attractive. the buttons, textbox and other controls. Is there any easy way to do so? Please help.

Posted 9-Aug-11 6:46am

Ehtesam Ahmed

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Answer 1 · 2011-08-09T06:58:00

Solution 1

"An easy way ..."

No! It really depends what comes easy to you and compared to what. The question is not answerable without considerately more effort on your side.

Regards,

—MRB

Posted 9-Aug-11 6:58am

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

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Abhinav S 9-Aug-11 13:35pm

Well yeah. 5.

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2011-08-09T06:59:00

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You should just let the OS stylize your apps. As an end-user myself, I absolutely HATE IT when a software manufacturer imposes his own idea of color/font combinations on me. Case in point - VS2010.

Posted 9-Aug-11 6:59am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 9-Aug-11 13:32pm

A valid point of view! 5+

Abhinav S 9-Aug-11 13:35pm

Absolutely.

Ravi Bhavnani 9-Aug-11 14:50pm

I agree. Skinning your app should be done with discretion - if at all.

Abhinav S · Answer 3 · 2011-08-09T07:34:00

Solution 3

Moving over to WPF might be a good step. Visual styling features in WPF make it very easy to customize buttons / layouts etc with the help of styles and animations.

Posted 9-Aug-11 7:34am

Abhinav S

Ravi Bhavnani · Answer 4 · 2011-08-09T08:55:00

Solution 4

If there's a business need to make your Windows Forms app appear better styled (but not necessarily skinned), you may want to consider a 3rd party toolkit such as Telerik[^]. They're pretty well established.

/ravi

Posted 9-Aug-11 8:55am

Ravi Bhavnani

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Abhinav S 10-Aug-11 0:44am

Infragistics Appstylist is also fairly decent.