When Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) and Silverlight first came out, the announcements happily proclaimed that it was even easier to have your visual design team build really nice user interfaces that we, the developers, could then enhance with code. But what about the significant number of us that don’t have a visual design team or even a single visual designer?
Even though we may not have had an art class since 6th grade, developers can create really nice looking Silverlight applications. And Silverlight Themes makes it easy.
NOTE: Silverlight themes are part of the Silverlight Toolkit that you can download from here.
Take this simple Silverlight page:
from Deborah Kurata more here