VisualStudio2022 Themes Blending
Telerik UI for WinForms suite offers a touch optimized theme which provides additional features such as custom fonts, built-in animations and shadows. The Visual Style Builder tool provides a functionality to blend the colors of an existing theme so that a completely new theme can be created for couple of minutes.
The VisualStudio2022 theme are designed to work with predefined set of colors. The tutorial here will demonstrate how a new VisualStudio2022Light theme can be created.
Figure 1: VisualStudio2022Light Theme
Generate VisualStudio2022Light Variation
Visual Style Builder provides an easy way to generate different color variations of the VisualStudio2022Light theme.
Select Tools >> Generate VisualStudio2022Light Variation menu item:
Figure 2: Generate VisualStudio2022Light Variation
If you already have loaded a customized VisualStudio2022 theme it will remain loaded when generating a VisualStudio2022 variation. This will open the VisualStudio2022 Blend Dialog from which you can create a new palette or modify the selected one.
Figure 3: VisualStudio2022 Blend Dialog
If you click the Generate theme button, a new variation of the VisualStudio2022Light theme will be exported using the selected colors.
Figure 4: Save the Theme
After loading the custom theme in Theme Viewer the primary/accent colors are replaced:
Figure 5: Load VisualStudio2022Light theme variation
