How to make custom forms?

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I am trying to make a custom form in C# Visual Studio 2010 express. i know that i can be done because MS office has custom forms (exept for windows 7 and 8) i have a lot of Questions that i will list below
Q 1. how will i make the form custom? i found a few videos on youtube, which i will provide below, which i think may be the answer, but is it proffesional?
here are the links:
video 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNO6G5RzBdQ[^]
video 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJlY9aX73Vs[^]
Q 2. how do i make a theme? if you right click on the desk top, click "personlaize"( in XP it's "Properties")
then click "themes", you will be able to change the look of windows(e.g. make XP look like 7)
but you can click "browse" and choose a theme file of your own. how do i do this?
Q 3. once i have made a theme, how can i apply it to one aplication in particualr (making the form and messageboxes ect. look the same) without making all appications look like it?
Q 4. if you have Google chrome or MS office when the theme is set to windows 7, it dosen't look like the costum form any more. how do i check and see the theme and change it?
Q 5.Are the videos in Q 1 proffesionAl? is that the way microsoft or google would do it?

(please answer as many Questions as you can.)

Posted 26-Apr-12 9:51am

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Updated 27-Apr-12 4:51am

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Shahin Khorshidnia · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-26T10:10:00

Solution 1

Hello

you didn't specify WinApp, ASP.Net, WPF or others? But When you talked about office, I guess you mean Desktop application, and when you said "Form", I could guess you mean WinForm.
All right:
I think you could search google and find your answers by the way look at these:

.Net Win Forms Themes

C# .NET - How to add Skins or Themes to Windows Application + C#

WinForms Skins

Posted 26-Apr-12 10:10am

Shahin Khorshidnia

Updated 26-Apr-12 10:14am

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VJ Reddy 26-Apr-12 20:49pm

Good references. 5!

Shahin Khorshidnia 26-Apr-12 23:53pm

Thank you VJ

Maciej Los 7-Jun-12 13:54pm

Good answer, my 5!

Shahin Khorshidnia 8-Jun-12 3:06am

Thank you very much

mmm3743 · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-26T10:11:00

A1:I had a similar problem,try this:Use the Free USkin Toolkit to Skin your Application[^]
or you can set your windows form style to none and put some pictureboxes and make theme with that(you would need to make your own resizing code)
A2:Try looking at:http://www.wincustomize.com/[^],one of their products was windows xp theme maker and the program worked perfect,if the first solution don't work try:http://www.gold-software.com/TopThemesXP-file3460.html[^],I haven't tested this solution,so I don't know if it will work
A3:solution A1 works only on 1 program
A4:Don't know

*UPDATE*
I have found a new program for creating custom controls and forms:
http://www.syncfusion.com/[^]
there is a 30 day trial version, and in my opinion it's much better than USkin

VJ Reddy · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-26T14:53:00

Solution 3

The references given in Solution 1 by Shahin Khorshidnia and in Solution 2 by mmm3743 are good.

I think this Code Project article
Winforms SkinFramework[^] by Danielku15
may also be helpful.

Posted 26-Apr-12 14:53pm

VJ Reddy

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Shahin Khorshidnia 26-Apr-12 23:55pm

Thank you for pointing my solution and also, a good reference to Danielku15's article. My +5

VJ Reddy 27-Apr-12 0:41am

Thank you, Shahin.

Maciej Los 7-Jun-12 13:54pm

Good answer, my 5!

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