I want to create good professional-looking GUI for a DB application. Are there links to useful sites or books on this topic?

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Only performance counts!

Hi Sylva,

Do you mean you want to develop a DB application with pretty UI? If you think the Microsoft .NET built-in controls are not pretty, you can override them and add your own background, image, shape for example.

Handle the Paint event of the controls you can use Graphics to draw shape onto the control. Here is the Graphics class document.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.graphics.aspx

If you have any detail requirement, please feel free to tell me.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian

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Your signature line gives it away. Hire a designer.

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Hans Passant.

Your signature line gives it away. Hire a designer.

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Hans Passant.

What kind of response is this?

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Only performance counts!

Hi Sylva,

Do you mean you want to develop a DB application with pretty UI? If you think the Microsoft .NET built-in controls are not pretty, you can override them and add your own background, image, shape for example.

Handle the Paint event of the controls you can use Graphics to draw shape onto the control. Here is the Graphics class document.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.graphics.aspx

If you have any detail requirement, please feel free to tell me.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian

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