A Toolkit/Component Application by Infragistics

Application Styling™ is a ground-breaking concept in Windows Forms development that allows developers and graphic designers to collaborate more efficiently. While the developer creates the application, a visual designer is creating styles to be applied to that application. When finished, the graphic designer can provide the style library to the developer who can apply it to the application with only one line of code. Styling world-class applications with a polished, professional look and feel has never been easier.

NetAdvantage AppStylist is a stand-alone application that works outside of the Microsoft® Visual Studio® IDE, and therefore empowers visual designers to create and edit style libraries, effortlessly and intuitively. NetAdvantage AppStylist styles every minute detail of your application with the help of our unique Appearance object and Presentation Layer Framework™. Use the simple point-and-click interface and watch the styles change on the canvas. The user interface is divided into three intuitive, familiar sections:

Canvas
This section shows an example of your current style while dynamically updating whenever you change the style's settings.

Style Explorer
This section lets you select styles that you want to modify as well as change those styles based on the role they will play in either a user interface or as an individual component.

Properties
This section will be where most of your design efforts will take place, as it is the core section for changing the look and feel of different states.

Using styles in your application is even easier than creating a custom style itself – simply load your style library. (To make it even easier and faster, we’ve included many professionally designed styles for you to choose from.) After loading the style library, the NetAdvantage controls will pick up their default StyleSets or use a StyleSet targeted specifically for that control. You don't really have to set anything else to make it work. However, if you need the exacting precision you've come to expect from Infragistics' products, you can customize each control by setting its StyleSetName property to a custom StyleSet. You can also track if and when a StyleSet has been loaded with the StyleChanged event.

Whether you're a one-person shop or an enterprise-level business, the benefits of Infragistics Application Styling can be fully realized – NetAdvantage AppStylist works across Infragistics Windows Forms controls in a single application or multiple applications powered by NetAdvantage. design once. style everywhere.