In the past year, DevExpress officially introduced two powerful features to accelerate/simplify the development of .NET desktop applications. When used together, you can create elegant/personalized user interfaces, reduce duplicate code, and thus save money. More project time.
DevExpress WinForms has 180+ components and UI libraries to create impactful business solutions for the Windows Forms platform. At the same time, it can perfectly build smooth, beautiful and easy-to-use applications. Whether it is an Office-style interface or analyzing and processing large quantities of business data, it can easily do the job!
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HTML-CSS template library for WinForms
DevExpress WinForms HTML-CSS Template Library Launched in May 2023 (v23.1), this powerful toolkit is integrated into Visual Studio’s WinForms HTML template designer. The gallery includes 20 pre-designed HTML-CSS templates (based on those used in the DevExpress WinForms demo application), all of which leverage the power of HTML/CSS markup and are aligned with modern design trends.
The official product team designed HTML-CSS templates for maximum UI/design flexibility (you can customize the templates to better suit your application needs, you can create your own templates and save them to the library and use them in They are used in all WinForms projects.
Custom templates are stored in the following folders:
%LocalAppData%\DevExpress\HtmlTemplateGallery\templates\
The templates.xml file contains general information about custom templates.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TemplateStorage xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<List>
<TemplateInfo>
<Name>Delete Button</Name>
<Description>A button with a glow effect.</Description>
<Tags>Button</Tags>
<FolderName>delete_button</FolderName>
</TemplateInfo>
</List>
</TemplateStorage>The custom templates themselves are stored in the corresponding subfolders. Copy/paste the "templates" folder to other computers to share custom HTML-CSS templates with your team.
Reusable UI templates for WinForms
First launched in September 2022 (v22.2), DevExpress UI templates include more than 25 pre-built UI components and forms for the Windows Forms platform. All UI templates utilize DevExpress WinForms controls, with full support for MVVM, DirectX hardware acceleration and DevExpress application skins. You can use DevExpress UI templates without direct modification and seamlessly integrate them into existing WinForms projects.