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disasterkid
disasterkid

Reputation: 7278

Design GUI like MS Office Applications

I would like to create a windows application (not windows store app), with a GUI as elegant as Office 360 or Github for windows. It's a little hard to come up with that design if you use the normal Windows Applications in Visual Studio. Any Guidelines on how I can do that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 702

Answers (2)

Euphoric
Euphoric

Reputation: 12849

You really can't do that easily with WinForms. WinForms was not designed for this kind of customization of UI in mind. Yeah, there exists ways to do it and some 3rd party frameworks do have ability to draw custom UI like that, but they are usually limited to image-based skins.

Your best bet would be to learn WPF. WPF is actually meant to create these kind of UIs and in many cases, it allows you to create them quite easily.

Upvotes: 1

Andrey
Andrey

Reputation: 60075

You need two things 1) Chromeless application and 2) Professional design and layout. For the first one check out this question, here is nice example. Well regarding second part - try to recreate some existing app that you like for the beginning.

You should really use WPF, with Winforms it will require immense effort.

Upvotes: 1

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