Customize .NET Controls Appearance

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Hi everyone

I am novice and i would like to customize .NET Controls style and appearance but no success yet. I don't want to use third party controls.

the only thing that i found is GDI+ programming but it seems so difficult. for example i want to create a button with inner shadow on roll-over event.
take a look out this page. this is almost near what i want:
http://www.vgdotnet.com/index.shtml[[^]

Plz help.
any suggestion would be appreciated.

Posted 4-Dec-09 2:39am

Sam Rad

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-04T03:10:00

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the only thing that i found is GDI+ programming but it seems so difficult.

GDI+ is how all controls are drawn. It's your only option. You need to make your controls owner drawn and write GDI+ code to draw them as you desire them to look. There's tons of articles here on Code Project with owner drawn controls that you can look at.

Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-04T03:26:00

Solution 2

If you are looking at starting your project from scratch, you could use WPF or Silverlight instead of winforms. These provide awesome control styling and customization features.

Posted 4-Dec-09 3:26am

Abhinav S