# Free XP Themed Windows Forms Controls
I bet I've mentioned these before, but the joy of rediscovery is the positive side of a poor memory... [Christopher Frazier](https://www.chrisfrazier.net/blog) pointed to these in a email discussion today, and I thought you might be interested!

> [SteepValley.NET: XP Common Controls](https://www.steepvalley.net/dev/projects/xpcc/xpcc.aspx)
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> The XP Common Controls are a collection of themed and unthemed controls that are currently missing from the Visual Studio IDE...
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> The new Release of Version 2.0 from Sept. 9th, 2004 includes several new features including:
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>   * New Namespace
>   * fully editable themed properties
>   * XPListView enhancements
>   * new controls
>   * more...
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> This project is available for free including the source code.