Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Upgrading an Existing Application to use the New Infragistics Application Styling Feature

Infragistics - HOWTO:Upgrading an existing application to use Application Styling


"This article will show how to take an existing NetAdvantage powered Windows Forms application and upgrade it to the 2006 Volume 2 version of NetAdvantage and how to enable support for Application Styling.

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New in NetAdvantage 2006 Volume 2 is the support for Application Styling. This is a powerful new framework that allows for a great new way of applying visual themes to all user interface elements through the use of Infragistics Style Libraries. You can think of these as “Skins” for your application. In this article I will walk you through the steps that are needed in order for you to take an existing NetAdvantage equipped Windows Forms application and upgrade it to 2006 Volume 2 and enable Application Styling.
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Being an Infragistics NetAdvantage owner (customer, licensee, what ever) I’ve been watching the recent low volume hum relating to their new Application Styling with interest.

Call it skinning or CSS like functionality, I dig the idea of applying design/runtime styling to a WinForm app. Being the UI "look and feel" lamer that I am I can use all the help I can get in providing great looking apps...

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