Overview
VisualStyler.net is the ultimate skinning component for Windows Forms.Net developers, it includes an advanced skin editor and 31 professional skins including Office 2010, Office 2007, Windows Metro, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Aero, Windows XP and Mac-OSX styles as well as direct support for Microsoft Visual Styles. With currently over 2000 visual styles to choose from, your applications can now really stand out from crowd.
Design-time Integration
VisualStyler comes supplied with a Visual Studio add-in which completely extends the Visual Studio design-time IDE providing developers with a rich WYSIWYG design-time skinning experience. The component uses the latest smart-tag designers, making the component very easy to setup and configure.
Advanced Skinning Technology
VisualStyler uses an advanced skin engine, your application GUI is rendered fast, accurate and smoothly with no visible paint artifacts or flickering, and because our skin engine is designed entirely in C# it fully supports windows forms control transparency, font, color and image customizations. Microsoft Visual Styles are rendered extremely accurately.
Dynamic form shadows
VisualStyler supports dynamic alpha-blended drop shadow effects on all forms and dialogs, a feature unique to our product and available on all platforms. Your application forms will literally spring to life popping right out of the screen.
General Features
- Automatically skins your entire .NET application.
- Supplied with 29 professional visual styles.
- Choose from 3 translucent form shadow effects.
- Choose from 7 professional ToolStrip rendering styles.
- Skins the entire set of window forms .NET controls.
- Skins all forms and MDI forms applications.
- Skins all of the native system scrollbars.
- Skins all of the common dialogs such as OpenFileDialog, PrintDialog etc.
- Full support for control image and background image properties.
- Full support for WinForms control background transparency.
- Full support for multithreaded forms and user interfaces.
- High quality rendering produces smooth flicker free drawing.
- Easy to use component API lets you customize what is skinned.
- Uses hardware accelerated drawing methods on all platforms.
- Supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit color depths.
- Does not require uxtheme or 'theme aware' OS platforms.
- Written entirely in 100% managed C#.
- Compatible with NET 2.0, NET 3.0, NET 3.5 and NET 4.0.
- Implemented as a single .NET component assembly dll.
Supported Environments
- VB.Net, C#.Net, MC++.Net
- Visual Studio .NET 2005
- Visual Studio .NET 2008
- Visual Studio .NET 2010
- Visual C# Express Editions
- Visual VB.Net Express Editions
- Visual C++.NET Express Editions
Supported Platforms
- Windows 2000
- Windows 2003
- Windows 2003 64-bit
- Windows XP
- Windows XP 64-bit
- Windows Vista
- Windows Vista 64-bit
- Windows 7
- Windows 7 64-bit
- Windows 8
- Windows 8 64-bit
