anu-prakash-dev/presentationtheme.aero

A highly polished Windows Aero theme for WPF

PresentationTheme.Aero

Overview

PresentationTheme.Aero is a highly polished Windows Aero theme for WPF.

It currently includes the following themes:

• Windows 10 Aero
• Windows 10 Aero Lite
• Windows 10 High Contrast
• Windows 8/8.1 Aero
• Windows 8/8.1 Aero Lite
• Windows 8/8.1 High Contrast

See https://gix.github.io/PresentationTheme.Aero/ for more information.

Additional Tools

This repository also contains several tools for Windows Visual Style files (.msstyles):

1. UxThemeEx: Provides many Visual Style functions from uxtheme.dll with the ability to draw native controls using a specific .msstyles file. Not intended for general use as it is quite fragile and may break if certain Windows components are updated.

2. ThemeBrowser: Allows viewing and comparing .msstyles files. It also provides helpful utilities to inspect images and recreate those with WPF paths.

   

3. ThemePreviewer: Provides previews and comparisons of built-in controls using Windows and WPF themes.

   

Building

Requires Visual Studio 2019 with .NET / C++ (v142) workloads including the Windows 10 SDK component.

UxThemeEx requires EasyHook via vcpkg-built NuGet package. To build, use the Tools\Build-Dependencies.ps1 script from a Visual Studio developer prompt or similar.

To build a nuget package, run msbuild -t:Pack in the root directory and check the dist directory.

License

Code licensed under the MIT License.