Setting application theme

[Patrick]

As per your example on setting an application wide style (just before InitializeComponent is called in MainPage) :

Telerik.Windows.Controls.StyleManager.ApplicationTheme = new Telerik.Windows.Controls.Windows7Theme();

If we implement this method of styling our application, are we limited to only the given styles?

[Nick]

Hello Stephen,

You can apply which theme you want to be applied on each control by setting 

telerik:StyleManager.Theme="DesiredTheme"

This works even if you have set a global theme. I.e if you set the Application theme to be MetroTheme, by default every control will be style like this. If you create, for example, a GridView and set its theme to ExpressionDark, it will be styled accordingly. 

<telerik:RadGridView telerik:StyleManager.Theme="Expression_Dark"/>

You can learn more about our theming mechanism here. 
Note that the default Microsoft component won't be styled by setting the application theme. You will have to set theme on every control in order to achieve the desired style. You can find more information about which controls can be styled in our forums. Here you can find how it can be achieved in WPF. The same can be applied in Silverlight.

Hope this helps!
 
Kind regards,
Nik
the Telerik team

[Patrick]

Thanks for commenting, but not exactly what I'm asking though...

The Telerik themes, "Expression_Dark", "Windows7", "Vista" and so on,
Am I limited to only use these themes via this method, or is it possible (and not too time consuming) to create our own theme in the future to use in exactly the same way?

[Nick]

Hi Stephen,

Yes you can create your own custom theme, and apply it the same way. You can find more information and details regarding the implementation in the forums. And you can find a sample in this thread.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Nik
the Telerik team