>>>>I maybe very wrong, but in the web world, just installing Bootstrap gives you some basic control over how you controls look. Is there something similar for WPF?
>>>>I don't seem to find anything, I have a very basic little wpf application with a pageframe, buttons, textblocks and textboxes. But it looks very much like something I would have been writing in Winforms. :)
>>>>I was hoping to install some kind of XAML library and voilà, my application would look like something made in the third millenium.
>>>>Was I being a bit naive, and will I have to create my library myself, or are there (simple) libraries around that I can use and would give me a jumpstart?
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>>>With WPF/Silverlight, you have complete control over the look and feel of your app. Take a look at Themes, Styling controls and Blend.
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>>Thanks John. I (think I) do know how to go about and change the look and feel of my app. It's just that I was hoping to get some kind of template that I could include so that I don't have to start from scratch.
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>Google WPF Themes. There a quite a few free ones (and some not free). e.g.
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>http://www.nukeation.com/free.aspx#7
>http://wpfthemes.codeplex.com/
>http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/30e8b37d-01a0-4749-abcb-a5d7631e7646
>https://www.nuget.org/packages/Wpf.Themes/
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>Disclaimer : Haven't tried any of them :-}


Looks promising. Thanks. Are you saying then that you have been developing all that stuff by yourself(ves)?:)