CorrinaB has published the second part of her article on Windows system color theme style.
For those of you who desire a bit more contrast in the theme, particularly for high contrast color modes, there are a few approaches you can take...
- One quick and simple approach is to open SysColors.cs and replace the appropriate gradient brushes with solid color brushes by changing LinearGradientBrush properties to Brush properties, and, in most cases, I would recommend using ControlColor for the replacement. This will eliminate the gradients used on buttons and increase contrast a bit