VisualStyler.Net is the premium skinning component for Windows Forms .Net developers, the product is supplied with 23 professionally designed skins and you can also use any Microsoft Visual Style to skin your applications. With currently over 2000 visual styles to choose from, your applications can now really stand out from crowd.
VisualStyler uses the latest smart-tag designers making the component extremely easy to setup and use, and for a fully skinned design-time experience you can use the supplied Visual Studio add-in which extends Visual Studio to support WYSIWYG skinning on all forms, controls and user controls. So you can now design your skinned application GUI just as you would with any other normal windows forms application.
【applicable range】Can be used for all windows forms application.
VisualStyler comes supplied with a Visual Studio add-in which completely extends the Visual Studio design-time IDE providing developers with a rich WYSIWYG design-time skinning experience. The component uses the latest smart-tag designers, making the component very easy to setup and configure.
The smart-tag designer enables you to quickly setup the component and access all of the design-time features
.The style browser dialog enables you to browse, preview, and select any visual style from the style gallery.
The style import wizard enables you to import new visual styles from any msstyles file or zip archive.
Advanced Skinning Technology
VisualStyler uses an advanced skin engine, your application GUI is rendered fast, accurate and smoothly with no visible paint artifacts or flickering, and because our skin engine is designed entirely in C# it fully supports windows forms control transparency, font, color and image customizations. Microsoft Visual Styles are rendered extremely accurate, please click on an image below to see a full preview.
Dynamic form shadows
VisualStyler supports dynamic alpha-blended drop shadow effects on all forms and dialogs, a feature unique to our product and available on all platforms. Your application forms will literally spring to life popping right out of the screen.
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Built-in Visual Styles
VisualStyler is supplied with 23 authentic looking styles including Windows XP, Vista, Aero, Office 2007 and Mac OS-X themes. Please click on an image below to see a full preview.
XP Blue
XP Olive Skin
XP Metallic Skin
XP Royale Skin
Office 2007 Blue
Office 2007 Black
Vista Basic
Aero Blue
Mac OS-X Panther
Mac OS-X Leopard
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Importing Skins
VisualStyler allows you to import any Microsoft Visual Style at design-time, visual styles can be imported directly from an msstyles file or from a Zip archive. The 'Import Visual Style' task can be found on the VisualStyler designer and at the bottom of the VisualStyler properties window.
Step 1.
Open the main form of your application and click on the VisualStyler component and select the designer tasks by clicking on the small arrow on the top right hand corner. This will reveal the designer panel as shown below, now click on the 'Import Visual Styles' link.
Step 2.
This will display the import style dialog. Select the 'Zip Archive' option and click Open Zip to choose a Zip file, the Zip file is assumed to contain one or more msstyles files.
Step 3
Select the Zip file using the file open dialog, click Ok or Cancel.
Step 4
After selecting a Zip file the dialog will display a list of all msstyles in the Zip archive. You can then select which style to import from using the style listbox. Click Import, and the visual style will be extracted from the zip and displayed.
Step 5
You will now see a preview of the visual style with the default color scheme. You can preview all of the available color schemes using the color scheme drop-down box. Click OK to accept the current selection or Cancel to quit.
The style will now be converted to a VisualStyler file (.vssf) and saved in the skin gallery under 'Custom Skins'. If you are using the VisualStyler add-in, the skin will automatically be applied to any open forms.
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General Features
Automatically skins your entire .NET application.
Supplied with 23 professional visual styles.
Choose from 3 translucent form shadow effects.
Choose from 3 professional ToolStrip rendering styles.
Skins the entire set of window forms .NET controls.
Skins all forms and MDI forms applications.
Skins all of the native system scrollbars.
Skins all of the common dialogs such as OpenFileDialog, PrintDialog etc.
Full support for control image and background image properties.
Full support for WinForms control background transparency.
Full support for multithreaded forms and user interfaces.
High quality rendering produces smooth flicker free drawing.
Easy to use component API lets you customize what is skinned.
Uses hardware accelerated drawing methods on all platforms.
Supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit color depths.
Does not require uxtheme or 'theme aware' OS platforms.
Written entirely in 99% managed C#.
Compatible with NET 2.0, NET 3.0 and NET 3.5.
Implemented as a single .NET component assembly dll.