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Using Infragistics Color Tuner

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic introduces you to Infragistics Color Tuner™, an extension to Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010. The topic gives information on how to apply and color tune XAML themes of the WPF controls using convenient UI.

Required background

The following table lists the materials required as a prerequisite to understanding this topic.

Type	Content
Concepts	You need to be familiar with the following concepts: XAML Resource Dictionaries Styling XAML applications
Topics	Using Resource Washer

In this topic

This topic contains the following sections:

Introduction
Minimum Requirements
Accessing the Infragistics Color Tuner
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Introduction

Introduction to the Infragistics Color Tuner

The Infragistics Color Tuner Microsoft Visual Studio extension is intended to provide you with convenient graphical user interface for color tuning of Infragistics themes.

Infragistics Color Tuner works using Resource Washer™ component. Basically, what Infragistics Color Tuner is doing is shown in the code sample below and it does the following:

It adds Resource Washers to App.xaml application resources. If Application.Resources is not defined, it will be added automatically.
Resource Washers will be added inside a ResourceDictionary.

<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<!--Resource Washers will be inserted here-->
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>

Minimum Requirements

Installation

Infragistics Color Tuner needs to be installed with the Ultimate UI for WPF product.

Requirements summary chart

The following table summarizes the requirements for Infragistics Color Tuner. The Infragistics Color Tuner will list a project if the following rules are fulfilled.

Requirement	Description
At least one Infragistics ( WPF ) assembly present.	Project on which you are working has to use Infragistics assemblies.
App.xaml file present.	Project on which you are working has to have App.xaml file (i.e. xaml file with Build Action set on ApplicationDefinition).

Note	Note When there is a project with Infragistics controls, for which the requirements stated in the table above are fulfilled, the Infragistics Color Tuner will show it. If there is no such project an error message will be displayed.

Accessing the XAML Color Tuner

Feature Overview

You open the tool using the Microsoft Visual Studio Standard Toolbar and selecting View->Other Windows -> Infragistics Color Tuner

You can also open the tool from the context menu on any project containing WPF assemblies.

Show XAML Color Tuner window

Infragistics Color Tuner is installed with Infragistics controls package. It is placed in your Visual Studio toolbar, which you can show by clicking the View menu followed by Other Windows and selecting from the drop-down.

Click on the Infragistics Color Tuner.

You can click on the Show Infragistics Color tuner from the context menu of the project.

Main Features

Features Overview

The following table summarizes the main features of the Infragistics Color Tuner extension. Additional details are available after the summary table.

Feature	Description
Select theme to apply on application level	Using Themes window of Infragistics Color Tuner, you can select which theme to apply from themes shown
Select controls on which to apply the selected theme	Using Apply Theme? Window you can specify on which control you want to apply selected theme
Create your own theme	Using Themes window you can select the theme which you want to color tune from the installed themes.
Specify base color for color tuned theme	Using Color Tuner window you can choose base color for color tuned theme from a drop-down
Specify color tune mode	Using Color Tuner window you can choose which color tune mode to use from a drop-down
Name your color tuned theme	Using Color Tuner window you can specify the name of your color tuned theme
Remove custom color tuned theme.	Using Color Tuner window you can remove color tuned theme using the Remove button.

Create your own theme

You can create your own themes by color tuning the default Infragistics themes. To do so, choose one of the default themes shown in the Themes window, in Installed themes panel, and click on Color Tune… button.

Navigate to the Color Tuner window and customize base color, color tune mode and name of the newly created theme. To save and use your theme, click Save & Use button or click Save and use the theme at later stage.

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