My boss at work, has asked me to make my 2 software products a bit easier on the eye, add some shading, fancy color schemes etc.

This is somehting I have always struggled with. Has anybody got any links to some basic winform design guidelines, graphical style guidelines ?

One thing I am considering is some of the 3rd party libraries like devexpress, however this does not appear to be a quick solution, as it seem to involve replacing existing controls with the fancier ones.

Any information would be greatly appreciated

simon