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Preview and Change Control Appearance

Preview Custom Theme

Using the Live Demo is an easy and fast way to preview different Telerik WinForms control themes.

Figure 1: Live Demo

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ThemeViewer

ThemeViewer is a tool that gives you the ability to preview a custom or a predefined theme for all controls of the suite. It can be started from the Live Demo under Featured Applications.

Figure 2: ThemeViewer

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Custom Shapes

The Custom Shape Editor provides an easy way for creating all kinds of custom shapes only by adding, removing and dragging the points which represent the shape.

Figure 3: Custom Shape Editor

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Change Control Appearance

Visual Style Builder is a stand alone application that allows you to create custom or edit predefined themes. Using Visual Style Builder you can alter, at design-time or run time, a predefined set of properties of a control. Because all Telerik controls are composed of primitives, this customization can be applied at a very fine level of detail.

Figure 4: Visual Style Builder Tool

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