Every once in a long while (very long now) you'll stumble across a dialog box that looks like it's from Windows 3.1. ODBC is one of them that's still that old.
It is, but there's still a standard system style that the majority of the apps are expected to use. Which is exactly what WPF uses - it's fairly easy to see if you take a WPF app and observe the differences on Win7/8/10.
In any case, surely, adding yet another different style only makes the problem worse.
Apple also did this whole "our apps are special" thing more than once.
I don't know why, but there's this weird temptation for every app to try to present itself as some kind of unique work of art, when it comes to UX. But I don't want art, and I don't want branding. I just want ergonomic tools - and part of ergonomics is not to have to re-learn everything every time you pick up a new thing.
WPF has no such concept. Even if you don’t use a library for this, it’ll then just use the built in style after detecting your OS version and adapting to that. But it does this by pulling out hard coded resources shipping with WPF. If you wish, you can override and tell WPF to look like XP on Windows 10 instead… It’s all just a good try, but still a facade. It does not and can not (per design) rely on “native controls”. I suppose because it’s DirectX based rather than GDI.
