I am looking for some recommendations on good places to find libraries of controls/templates/styles for WPF. I know about the usual places like Infragistics, but it seems to me that there should be some kind of community effort by now to share nice, clean, well written controls for WPF controls.
I am not big on the design side, and it would be nice to fill out my personal libraries with some nice examples from people who are better at design.
Any ideas or recommendations?
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Silverlight and WPF Dashboards and gauges
Simple (but great) piece of work.
Codeplex is definitively the right place. Recent "post": SofaWPF.codeplex.com based on AvalonDock.codeplex.com, an IDE like framework.
Check out Reuxables although it comes at a cost.
Syncfusion has a free community version available with over 650 controls.
You will find an FAQ there with any licensing questions you may have, it sound great to be honest. Have fun!
Edit: The WPF controls themselves are 100+, the number of 650+ refers to all controls for all areas (WPF, Windows Forms etc).
They have one for free as a sample at http://www.xamltemplates.net/
I strongly recommend the MahApps it's simply awesome!
I searched for some good themes across internet and found nothing. So I ported selected controls of GTK Hybrid theme. It's MIT licensed and you can find it here:
https://github.com/stil/candyshop
It's not enterprise grade style and probably has some flaws, but I use it in my personal projects.
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