How to make a form and list of controls in C# or VB.NET

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Hi guys,

I am developing a software and I want to make it in good appearance!!!!
As you see most of programs have a beautiful skins, I want too!! I have google it in days and I found a dll file called "DevComponents.DotNetBar2.dll" ( may you have heard about it) this file change my form skin to something like " microsoft office " visual style, but this file have no source code.
So, any body can help me with "How develop a form and list of controls depending on pictures designed prior?".

When I opened the form.designer in VB.net I found that this code:

VB

Partial Class Form1
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

Then I knew that the form can be programmed and so its controls and make my class inherits from it....
Can this be achieved???!!!
Can I program my own form and its controls????

thanx

Posted 9-Aug-12 14:50pm

Rasool Ahmed

Updated 10-Aug-12 5:02am

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[no name] 9-Aug-12 20:56pm

What does "How develop a form and list of controls depending on pictures designed prior?" mean exactly? How does "How develop a form and list of controls depending on pictures designed prior?" have anything to DevExpress controls? What specific programming question do you have? Getting a good appearance in a form is no trick. Find a suite of components that you like and use them. Simple as that. What the rest of your "question" means or what sort of a problem you have is not clear.

[no name] 10-Aug-12 8:30am

I will improve my question

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Aug-12 20:59pm

If you say "depending on picture designed prior", you should explain what's the dependency? Have this picture in its rendering? But for many controls it is not applicable? What is you idea of making such control and their behavior/look? I can guess it's related to skins, but how? A skin is not just an image.

For example, you can create an image representing a form looking as made of metal. You can create individual metal structure patterns, especially for a fixed size form. But it would work only for a form background. It won't make consistent look of the controls on the form...

--SA

Tarun Mangukiya 10-Aug-12 0:16am

I think that first you have to concentrate on coding, then on Visual Designing. Because in Creating Visual Elements coding is also needed for applying properties, changing it...

Thanks.

[no name] 10-Aug-12 11:10am

The answer to your updated question is: Yes, of course you can. Get a basic programming book for windows and it will show you everything you need to know.

[no name] 10-Aug-12 11:11am

Do you have a resource of this?

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**JF2015** · Answer 1 · 2012-08-09T15:07:00

The DevComponents.DotNetBar2.dll is a commercially available product and not free:
http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/[^]
Therefor you won't be able to get the source code for this without paying for it.

For designing your application I can always recommend the DeveloperExpress tools. These allow you to create a skin which styles your application. The skin can be created with their skineditor tool, and even a designer can do this without any programming knowledge.