I feel a tad noobish asking this (only ever used AppStylist for web) but is there not the ability to view these styles while in design view? I know the code to change/set styes at runtime but I must totally be missing the option to design around them. Thanks for the help.
-IanYour resident AppStylist n00b
Hi Ian,
AppStylist is only available at run-time. There is no design-time support.
The best thing to do is use the AppStylistRunTime component and then you can style your real application at run-time, including saving and loading style libraries.
You might want to take a look a this thread where another customer came up with a solution.
App style at design time in winforms - Infragistics Community
There are a few caveats, but this should work pretty well.
Thanks Mike.
I did some searching on Friday and came across that thread and was able to create a control as described that does the trick. Is there any chance for future support of this?
Hi,
This is a popular request, but so far, we haven't been able to come up with a way to make it work. Visual Studio just doesn't have support for something like this.
The sample component discussed in the other thread is fine, but it's also very limited. It won't work unless you load that particular form, for example. So if your application has a dozen forms, you have to load that particular one in order to get AppStylist working in the designer. It also won't work properly if you have you have more than one form loading different isl files. And there will be probably settings static properties like the Office2007 colors. Also, multiple projects in the same solution will cause unpredictable results.