WPF: creating an app that looks like Visual Studio 2010

Question

Hi!

How do you create a desktop application using C# that would look like Visual Studio 2010?

Here's an example

• What development environments can you use?
• Can you recommend any samples, tutorials or blogposts?

edit:

I think I found what I was looking for... http://wpfthemes.codeplex.com/. Thank you all for your answers.

Answer 1

The video shows a plug-in for VS, but the basic answer is WPF.

Answer 2

I think the best approach is to do it the way Visual Studio does. Starting in 2010 the Visual Studio shell is a WPF application which has a very distinctive Win32 look and feel. I believe, but don't know, that a lot of this is done via styling and themes. So a simply WPF Application project would be the starting point of the solution.

Getting into applying styling and themes is beyond the scope of a simple SO answer. Could you be a bit more specific about what you want?