Metro UI and C# [closed]

Question

Does anyone have any code samples in C# that implements the Metro UI? This is similar to the interfaces used in Zune and MetroTwit.

Thanks

Starryeyed

Definitely have a look at MahApps.Metro. It is available via Nuget. And was used to update the IlSpy UI featured in [this weeks Channel 9 Show][2] [2]: channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Nov-11-2011 – Portly

Look the Microsoft Hello World tutorial for Metro style app...it´s easy: [Building your first Windows Metro style app using C#, C++, or Visual Basic ](msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/…) – Polycrates

Answer 1

You should check out the Metro Toolkit on codeplex. It's a open source UI framework aimed at creating UI controls based on Metro.

Dinette

Thanks for the link. Do you know of a way to do it without using a WPF application? – Starryeyed

It's definitely possible to accomplish using WinForms but you'll be writing a lot of graphics code to manually create even the trivial metro effects. Do weigh your time/effort appropriately with that one. My 2 cents. – Dinette

Just a heads up Metro Toolkit contained copyrighted XAML code reversed engineered from MetroTwit (my project) and redistributed without permission. – Juno

@Juno Side Note.. I love MetroTwit :) ! – Dinette

Answer 2

There are Microsoft Silverlight themes available for the Metro UI. Cosmopolitan is the one you want, you'll find it via Tim Heuer's blog:

Tim Heuer's announcements

Here is a direct link to blogpost: Microsoft download page

Apia

Answer 3

There is a nice little jQueryUI Metro theme generator that can be found here: jQuit Metro Theme Builder

I have used it and it works well.

Premillennialism

Answer 4

This covers the bases of Metro design. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/31/designing-for-metro-style-and-the-desktop.aspx

Tonnage