Theme in WinForms DataGrid

21 Jan 20255 minutes to read

SfDataGrid offers six built in themes for professional representation as follows.

  • Office2016Colorful
  • Office2016White
  • Office2016DarkGray
  • Office2016Black
  • Office2019Colorful
  • HighContrastBlack

Theme can be applied to SfDataGrid by following the below steps:

Load theme assembly

To set theme to SfDataGrid, the following assemblies should be added as reference in any application.

Assemblies

        Themes
Syncfusion.Office2016Theme.WinForms        Office2016Colorful
Office2016White
Office2016DarkGray
Office2016Black
Syncfusion.Office2019Theme.WinForms Office2019Colorful
Syncfusion.HighContrastTheme.WinForms HighContrastBlack

Before applying theme to SfDataGrid, required theme assembly should be loaded.

using Syncfusion.WinForms.Controls;

static class Program
{
        /// <summary>
        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// </summary>
        
        static void Main()
        {
            Syncfusion.Licensing.SyncfusionLicenseProvider.RegisterLicense(DemoCommon.FindLicenseKey());
            SfSkinManager.LoadAssembly(typeof(Syncfusion.WinForms.Themes.Office2016Theme).Assembly);
            SfSkinManager.LoadAssembly(typeof(Syncfusion.WinForms.Themes.Office2019Theme).Assembly);
            SfSkinManager.LoadAssembly(typeof(Syncfusion.HighContrastTheme.WinForms.HighContrastTheme).Assembly);
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
            Application.Run(new Form1());
        }
}
Imports Syncfusion.WinForms.Controls

Friend Module Program
        ''' <summary>
        ''' The main entry point for the application.
        ''' </summary>
        Sub Main()
            Syncfusion.Licensing.SyncfusionLicenseProvider.RegisterLicense(DemoCommon.FindLicenseKey())
            SfSkinManager.LoadAssembly(GetType(Syncfusion.WinForms.Themes.Office2016Theme).Assembly)
            SfSkinManager.LoadAssembly(GetType(Syncfusion.WinForms.Themes.Office2019Theme).Assembly)
            SfSkinManager.LoadAssembly(GetType(Syncfusion.HighContrastTheme.WinForms.HighContrastTheme).Assembly)
            Application.EnableVisualStyles()
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(False)
            Application.Run(New Form1())
        End Sub
End Module

Apply theme

Appearance of SfDataGrid can be changed by ThemeName of SfDataGrid.

Office2016Colorful

This option helps to set the Office2016Colorful Theme.

// Office2016Colorful
 this.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "Office2016Colorful";
' Office2016Colorful
 Me.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "Office2016Colorful"

Office2016colorful theme applied in winforms datagrid

Office2016White

This option helps to set the Office2016White Theme.

// Office2016White
 this.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "Office2016White";
' Office2016White
 Me.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "Office2016White"

Office2016white theme applied in winforms datagrid

Office2016DarkGray

This option helps to set the Office2016DarkGray Theme.

// Office2016DarkGray
 this.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "Office2016DarkGray";
' Office2016DarkGray
 Me.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "Office2016DarkGray"

Office2016darkgray theme applied in winforms datagrid

Office2016Black

This option helps to set the Office2016Black Theme.

// Office2016Black
 this.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "Office2016Black";
' Office2016Black
 Me.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "Office2016Black"

Office2016black theme applied in winforms datagrid

Office2019Colorful

This option helps to set the Office2019Colorful Theme.

// Office2019Colorful
 this.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "Office2019Colorful";
' Office2019Colorful
 Me.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "Office2019Colorful"

Office2019colorful theme applied in winforms datagrid

HighContrastBlack

This option helps to set the HighContrastBlack Theme.

// HighContrastBlack
 this.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "HighContrastBlack";
' HighContrastBlack
 Me.sfDataGrid.ThemeName = "HighContrastBlack"

Highcontrastblack theme applied in winforms datagrid