I'm looking for a WPF theme that looks like Windows XP/WinForms. Basically I want all the WPF goodness, but without my business analyst freaking out because the colors look different.
(Pity too, I really like the themes I found on CodePlex.)
A:
If you don't override styles/templates of default controls they will look natively in any Windows theme. Your app will look like XP under XP, like Vista under Vista, and so on.
Just in case: XP theme is called Luna. If you need your app to use it under any Windows OS - look for documentation (MSDN) about theming in WPF.
arconaut
2010-02-08 21:08:27
Not really. There is a vague resemblance, but not anywhere close enough for my purposes.
Jonathan Allen
2010-02-09 02:57:30
if you mean it just "feels" a bit different - then there's probably nothing you can do, WPF renders UI in a completely different way, not using GDI+
arconaut
2010-02-09 06:25:33
Could you please paste a screenshot showing the difference you want to avoid?
arconaut
2010-02-09 16:43:27
A:
You might want to take a look at Xceed Pro Themes for WPF, it adds the Aero theme from Vista. It styles all official Microsoft WPF 3.5 and 4.0 controls including the WPF Datagrid and datepicker.
Odi - Xceed
2010-05-07 03:04:52