How do you create a theme in C#?

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I've been trying for days to find proper tutorials that could help me, but I have found absolutely none!

I always end up looking at a themebase that a guy named AeonHack has made, but I don't know what that themebase thing is or what it does, but it doesn't matter because I want to create everything myself. I know this question has been asked before, but none of the answers that were given worked for me. Also, please don't recommend me to use WPF, I'm not going to use WPF. I'd much, much rather use Windows Forms. Please, please don't give me a link to a website that provides some sort of code that I should just use with no explanation and such. I want to create a theme from scratch.

Thanks for reading, guys.

Posted 24-Feb-15 20:34pm

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Pikoh 25-Feb-15 3:39am

There is nothing,as far as i know, like theming for winforms. What AeonHack has done, and you can do it the same way, is inheriting controls, changing their appearance and then using them instead of stardard controls.

Member 11478018 25-Feb-15 3:50am

Ohhh. I see.

Well then it's much easier to find tutorials. Damn, why has no one else told me this before? But oh well, thanks for replying, it was very helpful.

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Member 11478018 · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-24T21:53:00

Solution 2

I found out that AeonHack (Thanks Pikoh for telling me) is inheriting the standard controls and then changing their appearance. Apparently there's no such thing as "theming", so one has to inherit the standard controls and then use GDI+ to edit the way the control looks.

Posted 24-Feb-15 21:53pm

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