How to make a attractive user interface.

R DileepKumar

Making an userinterface like a media player GUI without using WPF. Can any one help me how to create it.. or else just give the some examples...

Pete OHanlon

What you are looking to do is skin a .NET form. You can find more information by following the links[^] in Google.

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realJSOP

"Atractive" is subjective (beauty is in the eye of the beholder). I'd be more worried about maintaining a standard (and more importantly, consistent) interface.

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Keith Barrow

dileepkumar1244 wrote:

Making an userinterface like a media player GUI without using WPF

If you can't use WPF, you pretty much have to use Winforms, use a browser or abandon .net

dileepkumar1244 wrote:

Can any one help me how to create it.. or else just give the some examples

This is why I voted 1:

Beauty is subjective and [partially or mostly???] cultural.
Open some apps you like the look of, figure out what makes them nice, replicate the ideas. Not hard to figure out
There isn't really a programming question there
You ask for examples without having tried anything.

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OriginalGriff

I have to agree with Keith - his four reason cover nearly all of mine. But I would add this: "Attractive" is going to depend on what you are producing. An app to rip MP3's, mash 'em together and scratch the result is going to have a vastly different audience view to the monitoring software for a nuclear power station. The latter is not going to want hexagonal text boxes and see-though buttons so the background image is easily visible. But it is going to want a clear display of the core temperature, and output megawatts.

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PIEBALDconsult

You'll need buttons that the user wants to lick.

R DileepKumar

yah thanks yar....

annathor

GUI design is trade in it self that requers much experience, Amazone'd it for ya' when it comes to the technical side of implementing a nice GUI in C# you could a) create your own custom controls using GDI+ or b) by a set of 3rd party controls like telerik WinForms.

Nish Nishant

5! This was the only reply that addressed the OP's poorly worded question. Thanks Pete.

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Pete OHanlon

My pleasure mate.

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