How to set windows 7 like look of desktop application (c#.net)

Question

my client is asking for windows 7 like look for my desktop application (developed in c#.net). please tell me how can i set such theame for my application so that i would look like windows 7... please tell me if any such a controls/theme available... (open source is prefered)... please help me out.. i am using .net framework 3.5... and i am not familer with WPF

Answer 1

我的建议是使用DevExpress Winforms / WPF组件 ，它们看起来很棒，具有强大的支持并且非常易于使用。

Answer 2

First of all: use WPF, they look a lot better.

Second of all: The WPF Toolkit contains lots of useful stuff to create nice UIs.

Lastly: in .NET 4.0 you can create jumplists, icon overlays and stuff like that. If you're using 3.5 then there is the Windows API codepack which you can use for these features.