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Don't like DotNetBar? Check this out [VS 2013 Only]
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Alright, well I have noticed a lot of people saying that they don't like DotNetBar because it is too buggy, or it looks horrid. Well, I found this new UI that looks like DotNetBar Metro but has a little more customization to it. (Also adding in a Metro.MessageBox) So, for the people that would like to get this theme I will show you in the spoilers below. But first, you want to see what it looks like right? Of course you do.

Design:
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How to get this UI:
First of all, you will need to make a new project and install NUGET.
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Once you find it, click Ok and it should ask you to restart Visual Studios. Restart it and go ahead and make a new project and name it whatever you want and put the project folder wherever.

After the new project has been opened, click on Tools and scroll down until you see Nuget Package Manager.
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After you click that, you should see Package Manager Console. Click on that and it should load a console window at the bottom of Visual Studios.

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Type in
 Install-Package MetroFramework

Once typed in, hit enter and it should start downloading. Since I have it installed already, it states that it is already installed. (The knowledge of po's these days )
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Now, it will come up with a .txt in Visual Studios and it describe what it is and everything along those lines. Now once it is installed, go to the top where all the "using System;" things are. (Forgot what they are called) and enter...
 using MetroFramework.Forms;

Once added, you should go to your public partial class Form1 : Form area. Change it to...
public partial class Form1 : MetroForm


Go back to your designer and it should be changed to the Metro layout. To add Metro based things such as textbox's, buttons, labels and more; click on your toolbox and scroll down to the General Tab and open it up. You should see new things to add to your app/program. Just drag and drop like normal and it should work.

That about wraps it up. I was tired of people complaining about the DotNetBar scene and how it over powers everything, well this is a new way to get that "amazing Metro" layout without installing paid software.

Hope you enjoyed this sort of mock up tutorial and I would like to see more "tools" be made with this because it is such a nice UI.


Thanks again you lovely users of ttg.
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Liability wrote Alright, well I have noticed a lot of people saying that they don't like DotNetBar because it is too buggy, or it looks horrid. Well, I found this new UI that looks like DotNetBar Metro but has a little more customization to it. (Also adding in a Metro.MessageBox) So, for the people that would like to get this theme I will show you in the spoilers below. But first, you want to see what it looks like right? Of course you do.

Design:
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]


How to get this UI:
First of all, you will need to make a new project and install NUGET.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Once you find it, click Ok and it should ask you to restart Visual Studios. Restart it and go ahead and make a new project and name it whatever you want and put the project folder wherever.

After the new project has been opened, click on Tools and scroll down until you see Nuget Package Manager.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

After you click that, you should see Package Manager Console. Click on that and it should load a console window at the bottom of Visual Studios.

[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Type in
 Install-Package MetroFramework

Once typed in, hit enter and it should start downloading. Since I have it installed already, it states that it is already installed. (The knowledge of po's these days )
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Now, it will come up with a .txt in Visual Studios and it describe what it is and everything along those lines. Now once it is installed, go to the top where all the "using System;" things are. (Forgot what they are called) and enter...
 using MetroFramework.Forms;

Once added, you should go to your public partial class Form1 : Form area. Change it to...
public partial class Form1 : MetroForm


Go back to your designer and it should be changed to the Metro layout. To add Metro based things such as textbox's, buttons, labels and more; click on your toolbox and scroll down to the General Tab and open it up. You should see new things to add to your app/program. Just drag and drop like normal and it should work.

That about wraps it up. I was tired of people complaining about the DotNetBar scene and how it over powers everything, well this is a new way to get that "amazing Metro" layout without installing paid software.

Hope you enjoyed this sort of mock up tutorial and I would like to see more "tools" be made with this because it is such a nice UI.


Thanks again you lovely users of ttg.


Just to let people know this also works in 2012 so its not just 2013 :

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Thanks for this mate.

-Kojou
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This doesn't come up for me? like the search result


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Hey I did this and I don't get any metro style buttons under general in the toolbox
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