MahApps/MahApps.Metro

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

MahApps.Metro is a UI toolkit for WPF that restyles common controls with a modern Metro/Modern look and adds custom controls inspired by Windows Phone and UWP apps. It ships as a NuGet package supporting .NET Framework 4.6.2+, .NET Core 3.1, and .NET 5/6 on Windows.

Use cases

• give my WPF app a modern metro look
• restyle default WPF controls with modern themes
• build a windows desktop app with modern ui in c#
• add custom controls like flyouts and dialogs to wpf
• theme a wpf application with dark and light modes
• make my winforms-era desktop app look modern

When to choose

• you are building a WPF desktop application in C# on Windows and want a polished modern UI with minimal effort
• you want out-of-the-box restyled controls plus extra custom controls
• you need a mature, widely adopted MIT-licensed UI library with an active community

When to avoid

• you are targeting cross-platform desktop UIs (e.g. Avalonia, MAUI, Electron) rather than WPF on Windows
• you need WinUI 3 or UWP native controls instead of WPF
• you want a full application framework rather than a styling and control toolkit

Facets

library · maturity stable

ui-components theme frontend-framework desktop-applications web-design cross-platform windows dotnet wpf xaml metro-ui modern-ui csharp control-styles desktop

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