Can you help me please finding themes for the Microsoft Ribbon for WPF October 2010 release?
I want to change the default blue theme.
This is the best Fluent Ribbon control I know for WPF
Supports everything (and re-styling, black/blue/silver are included so far)
There are no themes for the Microsoft Ribbon for WPF October release, you have to come up with your own styles.
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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
I am using the latest WPF Ribbon control downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2bfc3187-74aa-4154-a670-76ef8bc2a0b4&displaylang=en
In Windows XP, the Ribbon application window’s title bar looks like from Windows 98… or like from console window. How can I improve the appearance of tittle bar.
Answered by a Microsoft Consultant:
The RibbonWindow ships with three templates as of the October 2010 release - Classic, Aero Basic, and Aero with glass. On XP's Luna theme, we fall back to displaying the Classic look for the RibbonWindow. It should be fairly easy to retemplate RibbonWindow to achieve the native XP look - use our RibbonWindow templates in the Ribbon Source and Samples MSI as an example. If we get feedback from several customers that the Luna theme is a top request, we will definitely consider including that for our next release.
In WPF, the default scrollbars are boring light blue controls, however I noticed that Office 2007 has some really nice scrollbars with animated color transitions.
Does Microsoft provide these visually pleasing scrollbars in WPF? (Via a template or any other method)
No. The closest provided by Microsoft would be the themes in the WPF Toolkit. There are quite a few 3rd party options to get the Office 2007 styles in WPF applications, however.
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).
are there any additional WPF themes from microsoft except that default ones provided in
PersentationFrameWork.Aero,
PersentationFrameWork.Luna,
PersentationFrameWork.Royale &
PersentationFrameWork.Classic
i am specially interested in a Office 2007 Blue theme
If you happen to have Infragistics NetAdvantage: it has some Office 2007 themes.
There are some themes at this link which were converted from Silverlight.
You might want to try www.reuxables.com - we have both commercial and free themes, and it is the largest and most diverse theme library for WPF.