ModernWPF UI Library

Modern styles and controls for your WPF applications.

Features

Modern styles and new features for the majority of the stock WPF controls.
Light and dark themes that can be easily customized. A high contrast theme is also included.
Additional controls to help you build modern applications. Some are ported from the Windows UI Library.
Targets .NET Framework 4.5 and .NET Core 3. Runs on Windows Vista SP2 and above.

Overview of controls (light theme)

Quick start

Create a new WPF app.
Install from NuGet Install-Package ModernWpfUI.
Edit App.xaml to following:

<Application
    ...
    xmlns:ui="http://schemas.modernwpf.com/2019">
    <Application.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ui:ThemeResources />
                <ui:XamlControlsResources />
            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

Edit MainWindow.xaml to following:

<Window
    ...
    xmlns:ui="http://schemas.modernwpf.com/2019"
    ui:WindowHelper.UseModernWindowStyle="True">
    <ui:SimpleStackPanel Margin="12" Spacing="24">
        <TextBlock Text="My first ModernWPF app" Style="{StaticResource HeaderTextBlockStyle}" />
        <Button Content="I am a button" />
        <Button Content="I am an accent button" Style="{StaticResource AccentButtonStyle}" />
    </ui:SimpleStackPanel>
</Window>