C# User Interface framework

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Hi all,

Since I am a beginner in this field, i apologized if my question were strange or unclear.

Our team are currently working on project using C# language, and one of the requirement is to come up with nice user interface. The Interface I mean will be something like apple mac os, not the typical old window form. I wonder if there are any tools outside (paid or free) to build this kind of interface? We tried to build customize object ourselves, but it was rather difficult and time consuming as none of us are expert in C#.

Your advice and suggestion are greatly appreciated.

Thanks

best regards,

Posted 12-Aug-14 15:52pm

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StM0n · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-12T18:07:00

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Maybe those'll help you

* Infragistics[^]
* Telerik[^]
* DevExpress[^]

Posted 12-Aug-14 18:07pm

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Member 10774223 13-Aug-14 1:15am

Hi s_mon, thank you very much for your suggestion
Really appreciated it :-)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-12T18:07:00

Yes, it's WPF or System.Windows.Forms, for people having Windows license, it all comes for free with (freely distributed) .NET Framework. Either option is quite sufficient for creation of such an "unusual" interface, as far as I can understand it. All it needs is hard work and skills.

However, I want to warn you: I hardly can imagine that really good interface can be obtained by mimicking Mac OS X UI (which is itself far, very far from perfect, especially if you want efficiency and user productivity, not vanity and "cool" look; I an not trying to say Apple designers are bad; they are brilliant; only their work is not oriented to productivity, but mostly to fashion and making money on people's vanity; this work is done with remarkable success). Moreover, it's not at all easy to create any unusual UI; yes, I know some brilliant examples of design, but almost all the rest turns out to be just a demonstration of bad taste and helpfulness. And visa versa, I saw some brilliant UI designs (extremely rarely), which looked remarkably modest.

Nevertheless, I wish you the best of luck and would be very interested to see such unusual UI designs. This is one of the things which could really fascinate me.

—SA