</ iframe > </noscript> <!-- End Google Tag Manager (noscript) --> <div id="BeforeHeaderContent"> </div> <div id="HeaderContent"> <div id="ProjectTitle">Themes for WinForms</div> <div id="PageTitle"><div id="PageTitleText">Step 2 of 2: Using Themes in Visual Studio </div></div> </div> <div id="AfterHeaderContent"> <!-- Spacing --> <span id="ToggleAllSectionsLink" class="FunctionLink"> <label id="CollapseAllLabel">Collapse All</label> <label id="ExpandAllLabel" style="display: none;">Expand All</label> </span> </div> <div class="BreadcrumbsContainer"><table><tr><td> <a href="QuickStartIntro.html">Themes for WinForms Quick Start</a> > <a href="QSCreatingaCustomTheme.html">Creating a Custom Theme</a> > Step 2 of 2: Using Themes in Visual Studio </td></tr></table></div> <div id="BodyContent"> <p>In this step, you'll add the custom theme to your application.</p> <ol> <li> <div class="C1HNumber"> <div> Open a form belonging to your application in the Visual Studio's forms designer. In this example we will open a ComponentOne WinForms sample, <strong>SimpleTextEditor2.</strong> </div> </div> </li> <li>Add the <b>C1ThemeController</b> from the toolbox onto your form. Also, provide reference to C1.C1Zip.4.dll in your project.</li> <li> <div class="C1HNumber"> Click on the C1ThemeController component's <strong>Add theme...</strong> action item. This will show a file open dialog. Select the theme file and click <strong>OK</strong>.<br> The selected theme will be added to your C# or VB project as an embedded resource in a <strong>Themes</strong> folder, and will be available for selection from the themes list provided by the C1ThemeController. </div> </li> <li> <div class="C1HNumber"> Run and observe your changes. </div> </li> </ol> <a name="seealsobookmark"></a> </div> <div id="FooterContent"> <p> </p><p> </p><hr style="height: 1px"><p>Copyright © <script type="text/javascript"> var theDate=new Date() document.write(theDate.getFullYear()) </script> GrapeCity, inc. All rights reserved. <script> $(document).ready(function() { if (!(window.self !== window.top)) { // Not running in a frameset // Get the page name var pageName = location.href.substring(location.href.lastIndexOf("/") + 1); if (pageName.indexOf("#") != -1) { pageName = pageName.substring(0, pageName.indexOf("#")); } // Append to webframe.html var framePage = "webframe.html#" + pageName; location.href = framePage; } }); </script> </p> <a target="_blank" href="http://our.componentone.com/groups/">Product Support Forum</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://feedback.componentone.com/forums/255782-winforms-documentation">Documentation Feedback</a> </div> </body> </html>