Hello,

I have a rad panel bar which I want to display without the border. 

So I set the theme to ControlDefault,
open the theme builder from the smart tag,
select RadPanelBarElement from the control structure tree,
edit the Bordercolor, BorderColor2,BorderColor3,BorderColor4 to all be transparent,
preview it and it look exactly as I want it to be.
Then I save the Style sheet in theme file (tried save theme as ... as well)
Return to project,
add the theme to the project,
Go to my RadThemeManage and Load Theme from resources,
Select the theme in the control properties and save.

Now run the prject and, as well as the borders being missing, the panel bar group elements are not as high and have changed colour...

Any ideas?

Hi Andrew,
 
Thank you for interest in RadPanelBar.

To display RadPanelBar without the borders, you should set property DrawBorder on RadPanelBarElement to false (see the attached screenshot).
For more information about the RadPanelBar structure please read the follow KB Article

Greetings,
Peter
the Telerik team

Hello Andrew,

I am glad to inform you that Q1 2011 is released and the VSB theme preview is greatly improved. Additionally, VSB has a functionality to start the newly introduced tool - ThemeViewer - which gives you the ability to preview the created theme of all RadControls for WinForms together. For more information refer to this blog post.

Kind regards,
Stefan
the Telerik team