Office® Inspired Themes
Deliver elegant WinForms-powered line-of-business applications that emulate the look and feel of Microsoft Office. The DevExpress WinForms Subscription ships with Microsoft Office 2007-2019 themes (skins) for your next Windows Forms application. You can use/swap each of these themes without modification or modify them using our free WinForms Skin-Theme Editor application.
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WXI Skin
Inspired by Windows 11
The DevExpress WXI skin is patterned around Windows 11. Like other vector-based DevExpress Skins, WXI ships with five color palettes:
- Freshness (default)
- Darkness
- Clearness
- Sharpness
- Calmness
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Vector Skins
The DevExpress WinForms vector skins (Basic, WXI, the Bezier, Office 2019 Black, Office 2019 Colorful, Office 2019 Dark Gray and Office 2019 White) are based entirely on SVG images, which allows DevExpress UI controls to look perfect on any screen with any DPI settings. You can create new variations of these skins using our updated Skin Editor - without the need to rely upon a third-party graphics editor.
Vector skins ship with UI elements that allow users to instantly change the skin palette and re-paint a skin at runtime. You can easily create a custom pallete to apply a corporate style to your application.
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Accent Colors & Default App Mode
DevExpress vector skins can change associated colors once end users make a change to a system accent color within Microsoft Windows. You can also specify a custom accent color and apply the desired appearance on the fly. "The Bezier" skin supports a secondary accent color.
Your WinForms application can track the Default App Mode setting used in Windows OS and only display light or dark color palettes within the Skin gallery.
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Skin/Theme Editor
The DevExpress WinForms Subscription ships with a custom Skin/Theme Editor – the same editor our designers use to transform images to DevExpress skins. From bitmaps and colors, to fonts and individual offsets – you can easily create and/or modify the options that serve as the basis of an app-wide DevExpress theme.
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