A way to make my application look like Visual Studio

[Mike]

How do I make my c# app have the more modern looking menus and controls,
like the ones you see in Visual Studio?

Mike

 

[Tim Haughton]

Buy them, write them, or wait for Whidbey. Another good place is:

http://windowsforms.net/

Cheers,

Tim H

 

[Patrick Steele [MVP]]

How do I make my c# app have the more modern looking menus and controls,
like the ones you see in Visual Studio?

Try:

http://www.divil.co.uk/net/

 

[Mark Rae]

Try:

http://www.divil.co.uk/net/

Yep - that has very quickly become my add-in of choice for WinForms
development with the XP look and feel.

 

[Mike]

Yep - that has very quickly become my add-in of choice for WinForms
development with the XP look and feel.

So, from what I've seen on the two sites suggested, it doesn't work like
skinning on (eg.) Winamp, where the GUI and application are completely
separated. If you want to use flat controls, you have to download new
components, rather than just a new skin. Is this correct?

Mike

 

[Patrick Steele [MVP]]

So, from what I've seen on the two sites suggested, it doesn't work like
skinning on (eg.) Winamp, where the GUI and application are completely
separated. If you want to use flat controls, you have to download new
components, rather than just a new skin. Is this correct?

Yes. These are not "skinning" libraries, but custom controls.