Could anyone point me to some good documentation on how to theme or style the dev express rich edit ribbon controls.
To style any DevExpress controls I recommend you use the WPF Theme Editor tool.
This is a standalone application designed to help developers create new and modify existing DevExpress WPF Themes with ease.
Related links: The Theme Editor for WPF
Tutorial Videos:
Getting Started
Working with Expression Blend
Related
I am trying to setup an Metro UI styled application, which includes MAHAPPS.METRO, AvalonDock (Metro style) and MS Ribbon component. Unfortunatelly, there is not much information about Ribbon UI styling especially for Metro UI. So basically my questions are... how to style MS Ribbon according to Metro UI on Win7?
The Fluent Ribbon has a Metro style. The control is open source, so you can make any changes to the control, or the styles as you see fit. I am trying it. It is currently the best open source option I have found.
How can I apply telerik themes to a dialog box eg for example; MessageBox, FolderBrowserDialog. In Wpf
Thanks in advance.
I assume you are using the windows forms System.Windows.Forms dialog boxes in wpf? If so, there is likely little hope for themeing them with Telerik WPF themes. You may be able to theme them with a telerik Windows Forms theme, but I am unsure, I don't really use Forms anymore.
If however you are using the Microsoft.Win32 namespaced dialogs, it is my understanding that they will use whatever theme is installed on the operating system by default. The following CodeProject article shows how to dig into the API, and may be of help to you, but it doesn't specifically say how to alter the theme.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16276/Customizing-OpenFileDialog-in-NET
Is that possible to use themes from Silverlight Toolkit in Windows Phone 7 applications?
Or they are only for desktop/web applications and not included in toolkit for WP7?
Is there any tricks that could let me use them in my app?
Theming support is not built into the toolkit for WP7.
The controls in the Phone version of the Toolkit support the configurable themes on the phone. (i.e. Dark/light themes and accent colours.)
If you wanted to do this and had re-templated all the other controls you were using, it shouldn't be that much more work to apply your custom styles to the toolkit controls too.
Windows Phone 7 has adopted a style of theming refered to as Metro. You can get some background on this if you watch CL14 from Mix10.
The resources you can use are covered here.
Theme Resources for Windows Phone
You aren't obliged to follow this theming however and can integrate other styles if you choose to.
Ok,
I figure it out by myself.
All you need to do to use original Silverlight Toolkit themes is to
Get its sources
Take out themes xaml files from them
Place this needed theme as a style for desired control in your WP7 app resouces
Apply new style to desired control.
WPFThemes is a good resource for WPF themes and styles. As of now they do not cover many controls like
Window
Popup
Datagrid
etc..
Is there any other resource to help developer in styling a WPF application?
Please check out the Microsoft Expression Gallery to see if that helps you out. There are several types of window and button styles there.
I just downloaded the nice themes collection from the Codeplex WPF Themes site. I like the WhisterBlue and BureauBlue themes a lot, but neither contain any styles for the new controls included in the WPF Toolkit (DataGrid, DatePicker, and Calendar).
It seems like someone out there must have extended the themes to cover these controls, but I've had no luck finding them. So, if you have any leads, I'd love to hear them.
I should also mention that I've been trying to port a Silverlight version of the BureauBlue DataGrid theme to WPF (see: How do you port a theme from Silverlight to WPF?), but that has been quite unsuccessful so far.
WPFreakyStyley has extended all of its themes to the WPF Toolkit. You might be able to find one that matches the CodePlex theme you're using.
WPFreakyStyley
The WhistlerBlue theme is included in the Silverlight toolkit Oct 2009 in the preview band.
Actipro Software has a free, opensource project on CodePlex called the "WPF Control Contrib". It contains code that extends the functionality of the built-in DataGrid and includes five themes for the DataGrid: AeroNormal, Classic, LunaHomestead, LunaMetallic and LunaNormal
High Robotics has free WPF theme that can be applied to apps and does not have dolly glossy style.
But it requires at least WPF.NET 4 (WPF Toolkit was included in that version).
Also here is discussion about free wpf themes (MahApps.Metro, nukeaction and others).