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.
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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.
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
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
Missing Sketchflow controls button, checkbox and many others.
Hi when I try to create a sketchflow project and add controls all I get it the default text ones not the Sketchflow hand writing ones :(
All I can find on the web is the advice to uninstall blend then install it again :( this cannot surely be an answer?
Expression Blend 3
Make sure you're dragging from the sketchy style palette.
Are you dragging the controls from the asset panel or the toolbar buttons? By default in Blend 3, the toolbar controls will create the non-sketchy controls, you have to create them from the asset panel under the SketchFlow heading. In Blend 4, the toolbar controls will create the sketchy controls by default in a SketchFlow project.
I am trying to create a custom wpf control, I'm wondering how I can add some design-time features. I've googled and can't seem to get to my goal.
So here's my simple question, how can I add an entry to the design-time context menu for my WPF usercontrol? The context menu by default has entries View Code,View XAML, etc.
You probably want to check out the WPF Designer Extensibility documentation. Specifically it sounds like you want to create a custom MenuAction.
This will help you get the context menu you require, although this applies to datagrid's still applicable;
WPF DataGrid Design-time Walkthrough