Themes Overview

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Prerequisite Knowledge
DataGrid Fundamentals: Views and Themes Overview

Themes determine the color scheme and default visual cues applied to the elements in a grid and, in the case of multi-surface themes, how and where the regions supported by a surface configuration are displayed.

Themes can be set using attribute syntax or property element syntax through a view's Theme property (see Examples 1 and 2 in Views and Themes Overview). If a theme is not specified, the system-color theme will be used. In either case, if the system-color theme is not recognized (e.g., a third-party color scheme is being used), the Aero normal-color theme will be used.

The Elemental Black theme will be used in the case where the Theme property of a mult-surface view is not set.

To change the view and theme using attribute syntax or property element syntax, the name of the view and (optionally) theme to use must be set (see Table 1).

Table 1: System-theme syntaxes

Theme	Color scheme	Attribute syntax	Property element syntax	Target views
Aero	Normal	[View.]Aero.NormalColor [View.]AeroNormalColorTheme	AeroNormalColorTheme	TableflowView and TableView CardView and CompactCardView TreeGridflowView
Luna	Normal	[View.]Luna.NormalColor [View.]LunaNormalColorTheme	LunaNormalColorTheme	TableflowView and TableView CardView and CompactCardView TreeGridflowView
Luna	Metallic	[View.]Luna.Metallic [View.]LunaMetallicTheme	LunaMetallicTheme	TableflowView and TableView CardView and CompactCardView TreeGridflowView
Luna	Homestead	[View.]Luna.Homestead [View.]LunaHomesteadTheme	LunaHomesteadTheme	TableflowView and TableView CardView and CompactCardView TreeGridflowView
Royale	Normal	[View.]Royale.NormalColor [View.]RoyaleNormalColorTheme	RoyaleNormalColorTheme	TableflowView and TableView CardView and CompactCardView
Classic	System	[View.]Classic.SystemColor [View.]ClassicSystemColorTheme	ClassicSystemColorTheme	TableflowView and TableView CardView and CompactCardView TreeGridflowView
Zune	Normal	[View.]Zune.NormalColor [View.]ZuneNormalColorTheme	ZuneNormalColorTheme	TableflowView and TableView CardView and CompactCardView
Windows7Theme	Normal	[View.]Windows7 [View.]Windows7Theme	Windows7Theme	TableflowView and TableView CardView and CompactCardView
Windows8Theme	Normal	[View.]Windows8 [View.]Windows8Theme	Windows8Theme	TableflowView and TableView TreeGridflowView

Table 2: Multi-surface themes

Theme	Color scheme	Attribute syntax	Property element syntax	Target views	Assembly
Elemental	Black	[View.]Elemental.Black [View.]ElementalBlackTheme	ElementalBlackTheme	CardflowView3D	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.Views3D
Elemental	Blue	[View.]Elemental.Blue [View.]ElementalBlueTheme	ElementalBlueTheme	CardflowView3D	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.Views3D
Elemental	Silver	[View.]Elemental.Silver [View.]ElementalSilverTheme	ElementalSilverTheme	CardflowView3D	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.Views3D
Chameleon		[View.]Chameleon [View.]ChameleonTheme	ChameleonTheme	CardflowView3D	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.Views3D

Theme Packs

"Theme Packs" contain additional non-system themes have been added to Xceed DataGrid for WPF (see Table 3). The theme-pack assemblies(Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.[#].dll) must be included in your references in order to use the themes they provide.

Table 3: Theme-pack theme syntaxes

Theme	Color scheme	Attribute syntax	Property element syntax	Target views	Assembly
Office 2007	Blue	[View.]Office2007.Blue [View.]Office2007BlueTheme	Office2007BlueTheme	TableflowView TableView CardView CompactCardView	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.1
Office 2007	Black	[View.]Office2007.Black [View.]Office2007BlackTheme	Office2007BlackTheme	TableflowView TableView CardView CompactCardView	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.1
Office 2007	Silver	[View.]Office2007.Silver [View.]Office2007SilverTheme	Office2007SilverTheme	TableflowView TableView CardView CompactCardView	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.1
Windows Media Player 11		[View.]WMP11 [View.]WMP11Theme	WMP11Theme	TableflowView TableView CardView CompactCardView TreeGridflowView	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.1
Glass		[View.]Glass [View.]GlassTheme	GlassTheme	TableView CardView CompactCardView	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.2
LiveExplorerTheme		[View.]LiveExplorer [View.]LiveExplorerTheme	LiveExplorerTheme	TableflowView TableView CardView CompactCardView TreeGridflowView	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.3
Metro (Modern Application theme)		[View.]MetroLight [View.]MetroLightTheme [View.]MetroDark [View.]MetroDarkTheme	MetroTheme	TableflowView TableView	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.4
Windows10		[View.]Windows10 [View.]Windows10Theme	Windows10Theme	TableflowView TableView TreeGridflowView	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.5
MaterialDesign		[View.]MaterialDesignLight [View.]MaterialDesignLightTheme [View.]MaterialDesignDark [View.]MaterialDesignDarkTheme	MaterialDesignTheme	TableflowView TableView CardView CompactCardView TreeGridflowView	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.6
FluentDesign		[View.]FluentDesignLight [View.]FluentDesignLightTheme [View.]FluentDesignDark [View.]FluentDesignDarkTheme	FluentDesignTheme	TableflowView TableView TreeGridflowView	Xceed.Wpf.DataGrid.ThemePack.7

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