Metro UI of Windows 8 for .NET Windows Forms applications.
The only reason for the existence of this fork is that the original author insists on removing all documentation from the code and some other renaming and merging issues. Forked & relicensed under same license (see below).
- Complete rewrite of Theme Manager to support global and cascading style changes
- Theme manager designer to for "cleaning" some of the serialization garbage left by the original code
- Style Extender to support theming of legacy controls
- Font Resolver to implement fall-back alternatives for Segoe UI fonts
- Implemented compliancy with .NET 4, Client Profile (i.e. no dependency on System.Design.dll)
- Fixed issues with maximizing and restoring windows
- CLS Compliancy
- Compatibility with partially-trusted callers
- Added true Aero Shadow
- Added lightweight System Drop shadow
- Multiple bug-fixes to shadows and improvements to flicker issues
- Improvements to display over Remote Desktop
- Form and Panel borders
- Multi-monitor support
- Centering forms to screen or parent
- Lot's of fixes to designer serialization
- Plus loads of other bug fixes throughout the library...
Simply add the "MetroFramework Installer" package to your project.
See http://nuget.org/packages/MetroFramework for details.
- Windows XP SP1/SP2/SP3 (without Aero Glass)
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- .NET Framework 4.0 and above.
- Button
- ComboBox
- Checkbox
- RadioButton
- Toggle
- Label
- Link
- Panel
- ScrollBar
- MetroTile
- ProgressBar
- ProgressSpinner
- TabControl
- TrackBar
- Custom User Control
- StyleExtender (Apply theme propertys to none framework controls)
- StyleManager (Auto inherit a default style to all used controls)
- ToolTip
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Dark
MetroFramework - Modern UI for WinForms
Copyright (c) 2013 Jens Thiel, http://thielj.github.com/MetroFramework
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Portions of this software are (c) 2011 Sven Walter, http://github.com/viperneo