Visual Basic Tutorial : How to Add Custom Form Theme and Skins in Visual Basic

In programming, it is necessary to make a program with custom designs and functionality. Today, I am going to show you a common things used by programmers.. and its about on "HOW TO ADD CUSTOM THEME AND SKINS TO A FORM IN VISUAL BASIC".. 

The process is simple as ABC, you'll just need this Theme Collection to select the theme or skins you want to use in your forms and controls.. 

As you can see, there are bunch of theme to be used and as custom skin for your programs and forms. Each theme has a custom controls like, Textbox, Buttons, Labels and other common controls.

I recorded a video demonstration of the custom skins collection of this archive..

Now that you know how it worked and its skin collections. We are going to proceed now to the tutorial on how you can add this to your project.

Step 1. Open Visual Studio

Step 2. Create New Project

Step 3. Open Theme Archive Manager (Click to Download)

Step 4. Select the desired theme/skin

Step 5. Click "View Code" on Theme Collection

Step 6. Click the Code to Highlight and Copy it to the Clipboard

Step 7. Go to your visual basic project and add new Class.vb

Step 8. Remove all the Class.vb codes and Paste the copied code to the class.vb

Step 9. Build Project (and when its done)

Step 10. Go to Form1 GUI and click Toolbox, you will now see the custom skins and controls and its ready to use.

If you found the written tutorial difficult to understand, I uploaded a step-by-step video tutorial on how you can add custom theme/skins on forms in visual basic.net

Watch Tutorial (Please Watch it in large player mode)