To skin an application just drop a NetSkin component onto your forms or simply enable NetSkinForms engine (a shared class). Softgroup .Net Skin Forms is a very fast, small and lightweight component that colorize controls on your forms, message boxes and input boxes automatically. It uses few memory resources unlike other components, that repaint also non client area of forms and controls using subclassing technique with the result of slowing down your application and use of too memory resources. Softgroup.
Net Forms skin is based on .Net ToolStripProfessionalRenderer native class and uses a combination of colors (ProfessionalColorTable) to colorize in an optimized way your forms, controls and dialogs, changing standard properties of controls or in case of custom drawing using .Net native methods and events. Six skin files will be already provided with the installation: Blue, Green, Lilac, Pink, Red and Yellow (can be free modified with included Softgroup Skin Editor).
Requirements:
.Net Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2005/2008
Limitations:
30-day trial
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