Any free WPF themes?

Wpf Problem Overview

I'm not a designer, so I'm looking for some free WPF themes.

Any suggestions?

Wpf Solutions

Solution 1 - Wpf

The only one that I have found (for sale) is reuxables. A little pricey, if you ask me, but you do get 9 themes/61 variations.

UPDATE 1:

A WPF Contrib project ... which does have 1 theme that they never released.

UPDATE 2:

Rudi Grobler (above) just created CodePlex community for this ... starting with converted themes he mentions above. See his blog post for more info. Way to go Rudi!

UPDATE 3:

As another answer below has mentioned, since this question and my answer were written, the WPF Toolkit has incorporated some free themes, in particular, the themes from the Silverlight Toolkit. Rudi's project goes a little further and adds several more ... but depending on your situation, the WPF Toolkit might be all you need (and you might be installing it already).

Solution 2 - Wpf

Not purely themes, but [MahApps.Metro][1] provides Windows 8 Look and feel with a few variants like dark and light base themes with green,blue etc for text and others. Its pretty cool and can be used out of the box.

[1]: http://mahapps.com/MahApps.Metro/ "MahApps.Metro"

Solution 3 - Wpf

I bought a theme from www.xamltemplates.net. The themes ship with source code so you can tweak them. They also offer a free theme (source code included).

Solution 4 - Wpf

I also found those: http://xceed.com/ProThemes_WPF_Features.html

And of course there are many implementations of Metro UI for WPF: https://github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro http://mosaicproject.codeplex.com/

Solution 5 - Wpf

There are some Microsoft Themes in the WPF page on CodePlex:

CodePlex - Windows Presentation Foundation

Solution 6 - Wpf

Read this article on how to convert a silverlight theme to WPF... The have a look at the Silverlight toolkit, thy released loads of free silverlight themes!!!

Expression Dark
Expression Light
Rainier Purple
Rainier Orange
Shiny Blue
Shiny Red

Solution 7 - Wpf

The direct link to the WPF themes project is here: WPF themes

Download the source code (currently there is no binary release) and check out the demo that comes with it to get an idea of the capabilities.

You will need to install the WPF toolkit in order to compile and use the themes.

This is an ongoing project, so I think more themes will be added in the future. It will probably ruin the the sites trying to sell themes to you, but it is great for one man shops that can't invest too much up front.

Solution 8 - Wpf

You can download 7 free WPF themes from http://www.nukeation.com/free.aspx . I found them very useful. You should surely try it out. They are designed by the people who have desiged the official WPF & Silverlight Themes.

Solution 9 - Wpf

Here's another one for Silverlight. And a list of nice gradients to use.

Solution 10 - Wpf

Here's my expression dark theme for WPF controls.

Solution 11 - Wpf

Sunny Orange WPF Theme

Solution 12 - Wpf

Amazings WPF Controls includes the Jetpack theme for WPF.

Solution 13 - Wpf

We use the Assergs Application Framework themes:

http://www.codeplex.com/appfx

They have a nice office look and feel to it :)

Solution 14 - Wpf

You might want to try www.reuxables.com - we have both commercial and free themes, and it is the largest and most diverse theme library for WPF.

Solution 15 - Wpf

Viblend WPF themes are free.

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