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VCL — More than 10 Ideas to Modernize Your Existing Forms and Unlock the Latest Benefits

In this blog post, I will document legacy/deprecated VCL controls and their modern counterparts. Please consider the use of these modern counterparts in your existing projects. By using more modern versions, you'll benefit from all new DevExpress VCL...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

9 August 2023

2023 23.1 modernize performance skins support themes Tips & Tricks upgrade VCL

WinForms File Dialogs with Skin/Theme Support (v17.2)

Our most recent release included something we’ve been asked about for quite a long time…With v17.2, you can now incorporate our custom file dialogs within your WinForms desktop apps. You may be asking what’s the big deal and if they are any better than...

Vladimir Abadzhev (DevExpress)

15 December 2017

Shell Skins Themes v17.2 WinForms

WPF Theme Designer (v17.2)

As you know, a typical app-wide color scheme consists of numerous palettes/colors/shades. Without the proper tools, creating your own custom theme can be incredibly tedious and time consuming process - a process that very few people willingly tackle....

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

12 December 2017

Custom Themes Skins Themes V17.2 WPF WPF Theme Designer

WPF Themes – VS 2017 & Office 2016 Black (v17.2)

Our most recent release (v17.2) ships with three Visual Studio-inspired themes. These themes are a great option for those who prefer a Dock-based UX versus MDI or SDI interfaces. In addition to use within dock-based apps (apps that mirror the functionality...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

30 November 2017

Office Skins Themes V17.2 visual studio WPF

WinForms Themes - Office 2016 (coming soon in v15.2)

Thanksgiving weekend wouldn't be complete without a few screenshots for our WinForms customers. Office 2016 Black WinForms Theme Office 2016 Color WinForms Theme We'd love to hear your thoughts on these 2 new themes? Are you likely to use them vs existing...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

27 November 2015

Office 2016 Skins Themes v15.2 WinForms

WPF Themes - Office 2016 (Coming soon in v15.2)

Though not a radical departure from Office 2013, v15.2 adds 3 new Office 2016 inspire themes to our WPF Theme collection: Office 2016 Black | Office 2016 White | Office 2016 Colorful In the following screenshot, we've applied the Office 2016 Colorful...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

16 November 2015

Office 2016 Skins Themes v15.2 WPF

WinForms - High DPI Support (Coming soon in v15.1)

Thought I'd quickly mention an upcoming update to our WinForms Skins/Themes... With v15.1, we've enhanced the appearance of DevExpress skin/theme elements to better support high resolution screens. Skin elements now automatically adjust size and margins...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

1 June 2015

DPI High DPI Resolution Skins Themes v15.1

WinForms Theme Color Mixer(Coming soon in v14.1)

If you are an active Universal or DXperience Subscriber, you should have already received your link to Beta 1 of v14.1. If targeting the WinForms platform, you may have noticed our new Application Theme Color Mixer...a quick and easy way for you and your...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

21 May 2014

Color Mixer Skins Themes WinForms

New WinForms Office Inspired Themes

Wanted to share two of our upcoming themes for WinForms - Office Dark Gray and Office Light Gray - with you. We expect to release these new themes in an upcoming minor update. Let me know what you think....which of these themes are you most likely to...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

3 July 2013

office 2013 Skins Themes WinForms

WinForms Metro - How It Made Us Re-Think Our WinForms Application Skin Delivery Model

As you already know by now, DXperience v2011 vol 2 will ship with a Metro-style WinForms skin named Metropolis (yes, we'll be following up with Peter Thorpe who originally suggested the name so we can get him some DX swag). Because this new skin might...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

1 October 2011

assemblies Skins Themes v2011.2 WinForms