StyleController Class

Provides centralized appearance and paint style management for editors and controls.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraEditors

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditors.v18.1.dll

Declaration

C#

[ToolboxBitmap(typeof(ToolboxIconsRootNS), "StyleController")]
[ToolboxTabName("DX.18.1: Components")]
public class StyleController :
    Component,
    ISupportInitialize,
    IStyleController

VB.NET

<ToolboxBitmap(GetType(ToolboxIconsRootNS), "StyleController")>
<ToolboxTabName("DX.18.1: Components")>
Public Class StyleController
    Inherits Component
    Implements ISupportInitialize,
               IStyleController

Remarks

The StyleController component allows you to manage the appearance and look-and-feel settings of multiple BaseControl descendants.

Customize the settings this component exposes and then assign it to the target controls using their BaseControl.StyleController properties.

For more information see:

• Style Controller
• Look And Feel and Skinning

Example

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

C#

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;

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.XtraEditors

' Create and customize the Style Controller.
Dim styleController1 As StyleController = 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

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippet (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contains a reference to the StyleController class.

Note

The algorithm used to collect these code examples remains a work in progress. Accordingly, the links and snippets below may produce inaccurate results. If you encounter an issue with code examples below, please use the feedback form on this page to report the issue.

C#

how-to-use-a-stylecontroller-for-all-forms-e745/CS/EditorsHelper.cs#L15

{
    public static void SetStyleController(Control parent, StyleController styleController)
    {

VB.NET

how-to-use-a-stylecontroller-for-all-forms-e745/VB/EditorsHelper.vb#L4

Public Class EditorsHelper
    Public Shared Sub SetStyleController(ByVal parent As Control, ByVal styleController As StyleController)
        Dim control As Control

Inheritance

Object

MarshalByRefObject

Component

StyleController