I tempted to apply skin to my winform application which has many datagrids. Many people recommend telerik and I changed datagrids to telerik's gridview. Unfortunately gridview's properties and events name alot differently in telerik and standard winforms datagrid. and I have to rewrite a lot of code from scratch Is there simpler alternative?
No, if you want to use Telerik's grid, you have to go through the hard process of rewriting the code to work with the new events, etc. unfortunately.
We've all been there :-)
HTH.