some ui design questions
1: is there an easy way to get objects perfectly at the midle?
2: any reliable sources i can look up to make my winforms app corners rounded?
3: simple and good looking font suggestions.
4: great nuget packages to get some ui design objects.
5: some advices on how to improve the looks of my main form
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if you want to make pretty ui then ditch the idea of using winforms or use one of the alreaedy available winforms libraries out there and be happy with those.
modifying winforms to look pretty is no trivial task.
Go for WPF or something newer it will be a lot easier once u learn a XAML based framework.
You can look up on github for theme libraries for winforms, anything else will be paid.
For wpf you have these $wpfuilibs
MahApps
https://github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro
ModernWPF
https://github.com/Kinnara/ModernWpf
Material Design
https://github.com/MaterialDesignInXAML/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit
HandyControl
https://github.com/HandyOrg/HandyControl
WPFUI (Windows 11 inspired) (Fluent theme is now built in to WPF)
https://github.com/lepoco/wpfui
iNKORE.UIWPF.Modern (Fluent style)
https://github.com/iNKORE-NET/UI.WPF.Modern
there are way more but these are the most used ones
my teacher teaches me c# in winforms rn so i'll have to ask him to switch to wpf
either that or dont try to make winforms pretty and use what is available
you can search github for theme libraries as well and if u find one u like then use it
but modifying it your self will consume a lot of time and will require knowledge if its an advanced control u need to modify
on top of that winforms uses gdi+ which is not ideal for a lot of things
wpf uses directx