SkinSoft.OSSkin Specifies an OS skin style Windows XP Blue Windows XP Silver Windows XP Olive Windows XP Royale (Media Center) Office 2007 Blue Office 2007 Black Office 2007 Silver Windows Vista Blue Windows Vista Black Windows Vista Silver Windows Aero Windows Aero Blue Windows Aero Black Windows Aero Silver Mac OSX Aqua Mac OSX Tiger Mac OSX Panther Mac OSX Leopard Mac OSX iTunes Mac OSX Silver Mac OSX Brushed Specifies how the application is skinned. The application is skinned manually by calling the and methods for each form or control. All application forms and controls are automatically skinned. Specifies what forms and controls are skinned. Skin nothing Skin only forms Skin only controls Skin forms and controls Skin only tagged controls Specifies how ToolStrip controls are rendered. ToolStrips are drawn using a system skinned renderer, ToolStrips are rendered using professional skinned colors. ToolStrips are drawn with a mix of system and professional styles. Specifies a shadow style applied to forms Specifies a small shadow Specifies a medium shadow Specifies a bold shadow OSSkin is powerful drop-in component that automatically skins any windows forms application from a choice of 18 embedded OS themes and styles. OSSkin uses an advanced skin engine that can skin all windows forms controls, scrollbars and common dialogs without requiring any changes to your projects or source code. In order to skin your application you only need to drop this component onto the main form or the first visible form of your application at design-time. Using the properties available on the OSSkin component you can determine which OS style to use, what forms and controls should be skinned and whether to apply translucent shadows to your forms. Use the property to determine which OS style should be used to skin your application. Use the property to determine what forms or controls you wish to have the skin applied. Use the property to control the appearance of all controls in your application. The and affects the visibility and appearance of the form shadow. Required designer variable. Initializes a new instance of the OSSkin component with the default arguments Initializes a new instance of the OSSkin component using the specified . Disposes any resources used by the OSSkin component Required method for Designer support - do not modify the contents of this method with the code editor. Begins the designer initialize action Ends the designer initialize action Determines if the component license should be serialized Manually shuts down the skin engine and disposes all resources. Manually applies the skin to the entire application, the application skin is restored using the current settings. You would typically call this method after a previous call to to restore the application skin. This method can be called anywhere in your application. Manually applies the skin to the specified form. You would typically use this method to manually apply the skin to forms, or when the is set to . This method can be called anywhere in your application. The target Form Manually applies the skin to the specified control and optional child controls. You would typically use this method to manually apply the skin to controls, or when the is set to . This method can be called anywhere in your application. The target Control If true, then all child controls are affected; if false then just the control is affected. Manually removes the skin from the entire application You can call this method anywhere in your application to remove the skin from all forms and controls. You can restore the skin at anytime by calling the method. Manually removes the skin from the specified form. You would typically use this method to manually remove the skin from a form, or when the is set to . This method can be called anywhere in your application. The target form. Manually removes the skin from the specified control and optional child controls. You would typically use this method to manually remove the skin from a control, or when the is set to . This method can be called anywhere in your application. The target Control If true, then all child controls are affected; if false then just the control is affected. Validates the license using the specified design mode Maintains render performance whilst setting the properties, and prevents any unnecessary skin painting until the method is called. Resumes skin rendering after painting is suspended by the method. Refreshes the application skin using the current settings. Gets or sets the component license, this method is not intended to be used by client code. Overridden, see Specifies the OS skin style to apply to all target controls Specifies how application forms and controls will be skinned. Use to manually skin forms and controls. Use to automatically skin all application forms and controls. Specifies which application controls will have the skin applied. Use to skin no application forms or controls, Use to skin only application forms, Use to skin only application controls, Use to skin all application forms and controls, Use to skin all tagged application forms and controls, Specifies a global include tag,any or whose value matches this string will automatically get skinned, regardless of the setting. Specifies a global tag, any or whose value matches this string will automatically have the skin removed, regardless of the setting. Specifies whether to skin the common dialog components, such as the , , etc. Specifies whether to enable custom background painting, this only applies to the client region of the , and controls. Normally OSSkin overrides all background painting, when this option is enabled you can override a controls and methods in order to owner draw your own custom graphics. Specifies whether to skin all native system controls and dialogs. Specifies what render style to use. Use to render toolstrips with skinned elements. Use to render toolstrips with professional skinned colors. Use to render toolstrips with a combination of system and professional styles. Specifies the shadow style to apply to all forms. Specifies whether the form shadow is visible. The form shadow is a translucent drop shadow effect applied to all application forms. Specifies whether to skin parts that are directly drawn by the OS platform. This is an advanced feature that enables OSSKin to skin custom controls and drawing. Specifies whether to override system colors and replace them with the skin palette. This is an advanced that enables OSSkin to override the and replace them with the skinned palette. Specifies whether to use system fonts in place of the skin fonts.