Xceed Professional Themes for WPF includes Glass theme reproducing the look and feel found in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Media theme lets you apply the styles found in the popular Windows Media Player and Three Office 2007 themes (blue, black, and silver). Xceed Professional Themes for WPF XBAP-friendly, CLS compliant, and uses no unsafe blocks. No special permissions are required, so it can run within the limited permission set granted to XBAP applications. Xceed Professional Themes for WPF complete source code is available in the Blueprint Edition. Xceed Professional Themes for WPF can also be bought as part of Xceed Ultimate Suite which also includes UI controls (Xceed DataGrid for WPF, Xceed Grid for .NET, trees, lists, panes, editor controls, and many others) and all of Xceed's data manipulation products.
Features
- Five flawless WPF themes: Meticulously created by experienced WPF technical design and graphic artist teams
- Can be used to style any official Microsoft WPF control and its child items, as well as Page and Window
- All properties behave as you'd expect, so a control will be properly shaded when you set its color, for example
- Supports implicit styles, so as little as a couple of lines of XAML code are needed to apply beautiful, uniform styles to any WPF application in no time
- Styles can also be applied explicitly for maximum flexibility
- Xceed Professional Themes matching brushes can be applied to your own controls so they fit in seamlessly with the rest of the themed application
- Comprehensive documentation fully integrated into Visual Studio .NET is provided
- Includes a Resource Center to get you started more quickly and to keep you up to date with the latest news concerning Xceed's WPF themes
- Created entirely for WPF, written in C# and XAML and built for .NET 3.5
- Complete source code is available in the Blueprint Edition
- XBAP-friendly, CLS compliant, and uses no unsafe blocks. No special permissions are required, so it can run within the limited permission set granted to XBAP applications
- All error handling works through .NET exception classes
- A Glass theme, to let you create applications that reproduce the modern look and feel found in Windows Vista and the Windows 7 operating system
- A Media theme, to let you apply the styles found in the popular Windows Media Player application. Included is a custom button that resembles the rounded ones found in that application
- Three Office 2007 themes (black, blue, and silver), to let you create applications with a more traditional but nevertheless modern look that will fit in with past, present, and future operating systems
About Xceed Software
Xceed Software creates, markets and distributes quality software components for Microsoft Windows developers. Since its launch in 1994, Xceed has been devoted exclusively to the Microsoft platform. The company's very first product, Xceed Zip Compression Library, was first offered as a VBX for Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 and has been so successful that it has been migrated to every Microsoft platform since, including ActiveX, the .NET Framework, and the .NET Compact Framework. Today, Xceed's product line can be grouped into two main categories: Data Manipulation components and User Interface components. The Data Manipulation components include Compression, Encryption and File Transfer libraries. The User Interface components include Grid, Chart, Menus, Toolbars, Treeviews, Explorer Panes and other interface controls.
