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I'd like to create desktop application which has Windows 8 style window(like GitHub for windows). AFAIK Blend allows only to make Metro(Modern UI) apps' layouts(am I wrong?).

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  • You could have a look at their own design blog article: https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-for-windows – J. Steen Jan 24 '13 at 20:17
  • You could use Expression Blend 4 to style your WPF application. If you have an MSDN subscription this should be available to you. An other way to get to work with Blend for Visual Studio is to download the preview with WPF, Silverlight and SketchFlow support. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30702. If you are not so good at the design side of things you should have a look at 3rd party control venders like Telerik. They often provide "Metro" themes to have you app look like windows store apps very easily. – Sorskoot Jan 29 '13 at 14:02

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I'd take a look at MahApps.Metro or Elysium. They have a lot of Metro themed controls.

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    Thank you, I installed it, but [project's GitHub repo](https://github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro) doesn't work and I don't know how to use it. Could you explain it to me? – xaxes Jan 24 '13 at 20:20
  • Probably a temporary issue. Here is a cached page of the documentation, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:70E-R0rccmMJ:mahapps.com/MahApps.Metro/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us – lumberjack4 Jan 24 '13 at 20:46
  • Hmm, I don't have any .xaml file in my project directory. What have I done wrong? – xaxes Jan 24 '13 at 21:33
  • Just create a new WPFWindow project and start modifying the XAML from there. – lumberjack4 Jan 24 '13 at 21:35