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StyleController Class

Allows you to manage appearance settings and paint styles of multiple editors and controls in a centralized way. This component is deprecated.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraEditors

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditors.v24.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Win.Navigation

#Declaration

public class StyleController :
    ComponentBase,
    ISupportInitialize,
    IStyleController

#Remarks

The StyleController component is deprecated.

See the following topics for information on how to manage the appearance settings of multiple controls:

#Example

The code below shows how to use the StyleController component to customize two editors’ look-and-feel settings.

CD_LookAndFeel_Example_StyleController_New

using DevExpress.XtraEditors;
// Create and customize the Style Controller.
StyleController styleController1 = new StyleController();
// Set the background color.
styleController1.Appearance.BackColor = Color.LightYellow;
// Customize the LookAndFeel settings.
styleController1.LookAndFeel.UseDefaultLookAndFeel = false;
styleController1.LookAndFeel.SkinName = "Office 2016 Colorful";
// Assign the StyleController to editors.
buttonEdit1.StyleController = styleController1;
lookUpEdit1.StyleController = styleController1;

#Inheritance

Object
MarshalByRefObject
Component
DevExpress.XtraEditors.ComponentBase
StyleController
See Also