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A New Set of Control Skins

One more set of control skins is up and ready for you to use. I had hoped to have two ready, but one set needed some additional tweaking work that I haven’t been able to finish while on vacation in Thailand, and I’m going to stop trying until I return to Seattle on 4/14.

This new set is very rough and organic in appearance, but it can still work on various sites or it can be used in early mockups of a site to give the mockups a rough and sketched appearance. I take this sort of approach to many of my early mockups; especially, if I don’t want reviewers to focus on design details.

Here’s a screen shot of the new set of controls.

Screen shot

You can also view a live version of the controls or download the Page.xaml, Page.xaml.cs/Page.xaml.vb, and App.xaml, so you can apply the style to your own site.

For those of you who are interested in designing your own control skins, there is a good walkthrough of how you might do this on LiquidBoy’s blog (at the start of this post there is a link to a walkthrough on creating a button control skin called “Skinning a button – 4 different ways and counting”), and you can download a Beta version of Blend to use for creating your skins on Silverlight.net (along with all of the other tools you might need).

Enjoy the new skin!

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  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2008
    PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2008/03/24/a-new-control-skin-set/
  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2008
    Do you use Blend to create skins? My designer is trying to create a skin for the calendar, but he is unable to edit the control template... It seems that this feature is not implemented or disabled. How do you recommend to proceed? I am afraid that he is not very proficient in XAML and will not be able to create a good looking skin only with XAML coding.
  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2008
    Via ce billet de Kathy Kam , on apprend que Corrina Barber - qui est le designer en charge de créer
  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2008
    Hey Corrina,These skins are amazing.http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/2008/03/24/silverlight-the-power-of-skinning-by-corrina-barber.aspxGreetings,Laurent
  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2008
    If anyone still needed to see the Power of Skinning for Silverlight controls, well, Corrina just did
  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2008
    Corrina Barber posted a cool looking new skin for Silverlight controls, which indeed looks perfect for
  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2008
    Michael Sync on User Control Inheritance, Expression Team provides DeepZoom collection example, Pete
  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2008
    Corrina Barber posted a cool looking new skin for Silverlight controls, which indeed looks perfect for
  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2008
    Corrina has posted 4 skins so far for some of the standard Silverlight controls; Bubbly View Download...
  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2008
    I posted last week about a set of skins that Corrina Barber had produced for Silverlight. Well she has added a fourth one to the set and it is by far the best at showing just what can be done with Silverlight skins...
  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2008
    A few astute readers have already found a couple issues and sent in a few ideas.  I've updated the
  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2008
    Corrina Barber has a great post about her new Silverlight controls skins which provide a pencil drawn visual style for the common controls. Click to see live demo ...
  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2008
    If you haven't seen the excellent control skins released by Corrina Barer (A designer on the Silverlight
  • Anonymous
    April 18, 2008
    From Miguel's de Icaza's web log : Now that controls are part of Silverlight 2.0 and that most of the
  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2008
    Has anyone seen anything similar to the "Rough" skin for desktop WPF (i.e. not Silverlight) anywhere?
  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2008
    Hi val_hristov,I'm responding to your question on "Do you use Blend to create skins? My designer is trying to create a skin for the calendar, but he is unable to edit the control template... It seems that this feature is not implemented or disabled. How do you recommend to proceed? I am afraid that he is not very proficient in XAML and will not be able to create a good looking skin only with XAML coding."It turns out that editing the calendar template as a whole unit in Blend is not supported at this time. The method I use is to copy and paste the individual xaml regions of the calendar from Visual Studio into Blend, and, then, I design each separately. Next, I copy and paste from Blend into Visual Studio, and compile and run to verify that my changes look as I had planned. This process is not optimal at this time, but will be improved in the future.Corrina
  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2008
    In this example I will demonstrate a very simple call to the FlickR REST APIs from a Silverlight client.
  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2008
    Later today, I present @ VS Live the following talk ... Building Rich Internet Application using Microsoft
  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2008
    Skinning Silverlight controls just got easier
  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2008
    Every .NET developer worth their salt has probably played round with Lutz Roeder's Reflector... This
  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2008
    Nikhil Kothari has a great post up from this weekend on providing themes for Silverlight 2 applications: