Applying color for All forms in Winforms

[Manikgisl]

HI

can we apply the color for all winforms as skin file as like in Asp.Net

At design time it happen

Is it posible


Thanks

Mani

[Ramk]

Go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Windows\1033 \WindowsApplication.zip(or to the drive where the VS2005 is located)
and edit the file form1.designer.cs in notepad as below & close it.
After this change, when you create a new windowsapplication, the form will colored with your color.

 
this.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.ForestGreen;
 
 

[Curtis Rutland]

Won't that change every form you create from then on?

I might suggest using Properties.Settings to store your color choices and set the color of the form in the constructor of each form.

[Ramk]

Not at all! Because, we edited the form1.designer.cs, so the changes will effect when a new WindowsApplication is created(By default, Form1 is created with the default WndApp project).
Also, your method works when the application is running if Im not wrong.
I guess, the questioner is interested to change the back color in design time itself.

[Curtis Rutland]

Right, you are suggesting changing the default template? That can be quite useful, as long as you change it back when you don't want to use that color.

[Ramk]

@insertAlias
You are correct. Infact, I do like to change the default templates to suite my requirements which could speed up the developement.

[balabaster]

I'd create a static class that contains a public property that sets the color. In every one of my forms in the Form's Load event I'd set it to the value of the property. Or if in VB, I'd do it in a module...

Basically what you're doing is creating a CSS type model. Something like

Public Static Class MyStyles
 
  Color DefaultFormColor = Color.Red;
 
End Class

Better still, I'd set the color scheme in my config file and have all my forms reference the colors from my config. This way I don't have to recompile to alter my color scheme.