Hey there,


I'm creating a radio streaming application which streams multiple radio stations and also displays the 'now playing' info, if available.

I've almost finished the core application, but I made it in winforms, and imo it looks ugly:

I've already tried to make it look better by applying a gradient to the label and the toolstrip, so that they match the media player control, but the combobox and the button on the lower right stick out like a sore thumb...

Usually, I like having my GUI match any windows application as closely as possible, by using as many standard looking controls as possible with little customization (unless it just fits), but for this radio streaming application it simply doesn't work. I think it's simply too small, and all controls are jammed together.


So, I wanted to brighten up the GUI, and I thought this was a great project to try WPF for the first time ever.

I've been trying some stuff for about an hour yesterday, and I got nowhere at all, neither with the actual creating of the GUI, nor with designing it in the first place


So I'm asking for your help. Does anyone have any idea what kind of style would look great on this little window? Perhaps a quick sketch or example screenshot would be nice!
And if you do have an idea, could you explain (without details) how I would go about creating that? Remember, I've never done WPF before so I'm a complete noob.

I'll sketch up some ideas of my own, but I'm having trouble figuring out what is possible, what is difficult to achieve, etc. I'll think of something and then I start wondering whether that might be too advanced for me to create... I don't want this to take ages, because the application is more or less finished in winforms and I don't want to delay it too long just to make it look good

Thanks for any idea's!