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December 11, 2004
.NET XP Themes Framework
Lately I have been doing a bit of .NET UI development, I've been honing my skills on XP Themes. I found this article by Matt to be highly useful. Part of his framework pulls the images from the ShellStyle.dll, and you can also load pluggable themes such as panther.dll (my favorite).
Windows XP style Explorer Bars/Task Bars/Web Views - call them what you will - are all the rage at the moment. There are many great free Explorer Bar controls available on the net such as Derek Lakin's Collapsible Panel Bar, Darren May's Collapsing Group Control, and Tom Guinther's Full-featured XP Style Collapsible Panel. Most of them don't support Windows XP themes, or if they do, they "fake" it by drawing the gradient/arrows themselves, or by including the necessary images in the assembly.
Posted by 0xFF3300 at December 11, 2004 10:30 AM
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