title: Style my .Net desktop application GUI with Silverlight/windows phone-style controls
body: <p>I am writing my first vb.net application ( But I will tag c# here as well, as I am sure even a c# person can answer this with the similar .net implementation).</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>Short Description of my Applicaiton</em>:</strong></p>
  
  <p>My desktop application will run on win platform only, using vb.net,  it is a simple internet cafe management software, with a server gui running on server, and a client gui running on workstations, both communicating with TCP/IP to allocate time to customers, and the server storing some data in either xml files ( for human operators login info e.g) or in a small database. Nothing complicated. </p>
  
  <p><strong><em>What I would like to do:</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>I'd like to have a "sexy" look, i.e. either silverlight look or win7 phone look, yet this is a desktop application. I'd like to use CSS but its entirely optional, if there is a simple way to have my controls look like below without CSS thats fine with me.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HstWc.png" alt="Look &amp; Feel Example"></p>
  
  <p><strong>What I have tried</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have looked into just doing a silverlight out of browser app, but as I am new to .net, and even though I have read up as many articles about using silverlight5 out of browser, I don't want to be caught down the road when I want to implement a feature and realize "Oh silverlight out of box doesnt support that".</p>
  
  <p>So my question is , how do I implement one of the new looks in the picture in my desktop vb app?</p>