New Visual Studio 2026 and Office 2024 themes bring a coordinated look to application frames, ribbons, menus, docking panes, and applicable controls.
- Visual Studio 2026
- Explore 13 Visual Studio 2026 theme variants that include Juicy Plum, Dark, Cool Breeze, Icy Mint, Moonlight Glow, Spicy Red, Mango Paradise, Mystical Forest, Cool Slate, Bubblegum, Light, Sunny Day, and Silky Pink.
- Office 2024
- Explore Black, White, Colorful, and Dark Gray styles with Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word accent colors.
Build richer analysis directly into your application with computed series, financial functions, and synchronized data.
- Financial indicators, ready to use. SMA, EMA, WMA, RSI, Shift, and Bollinger Bands join the built-in series function library.
- Calculations that work together. Link point collections and chain computations using another series' computed values.
- Smoother interaction, more flexible layouts. Two-finger panning, smooth pinch zoom, and configurable diagram size ratios make multi-chart views easier to navigate. Series processing is optimized for frequent updates and large data sets.
- Override series computation with custom functions and control how point values are mapped.
New 3D Line charts support tube and ribbon series shapes, configurable depth, markers, and point-label display modes.
- Adjust the view with camera focal-point panning and shared zoom helpers.
- Use appearance-driven axes, grids, lighting, and materials.
- Render translucent series with new 3D Line transparency.
Build document editing into your application with reusable themed workspaces, rich-text views, and document rulers.
- New workspace and Rich Edit classes support RTF loading, page sizing, and coordinated scrolling.
- DPI-aware rulers integrate with the document workspace.
- Framed MDI child windows can inherit their parent Command Bars frame theme.
Bring tool windows, application frames, and popup menus into the same visual language.
- Clearer docking feedback. Modern Visual Studio-style docking guides and push-pin resources help users arrange their workspace.
- Consistent floating windows. Themed floating Docking Pane frames are enabled by default, with improved theme propagation to toolbars and child controls.
- Native frame details. DWM integration improves rounded frames and popup menus where supported, with configurable shadows and fallback behavior.
- Better across monitors. Detached toolbars and floating panes recover when their monitor is disconnected.
More control over controls
- New MFC static, slider, and resizable-dialog classes expand theming and layout.
Localization, reworked
- Reworked language support, new locale-management APIs, and an resource-file locale setting give you more control over translations.
Move existing projects forward
- Visual Studio 2026 wizard and deployment support simplifies setup. The MFC VS6 Project Converter adds x64 configurations and C++23 support while preserving more project settings.
More flexible diagrams
- Place captions above shapes and connect at rectangle side centers. New and expanded Flow Graph samples cover UML, network, and application architecture diagrams.
Gauges that blend in
- Configurable background colors and transparent child gauges help dashboards blend into your interface, with dedicated properties.
Better starting points
- Updated Grid, Chart Browser, Stock, and document samples demonstrate current themes and workflows. ChartBuilder adds PNG, GIF, JPEG, and BMP export.