How to create Apple MacOS like Scrollbar in WPF

Apple MacOS has beautiful rounded corner scrollbar and add to the UI experience you have while working on a MacOS machine. You can easily have similar scrollbar style for your WPF application to boost up your application's UI experience.

Before - After snapshot of WPF scrollbar

If you wish to apply this scrollbar style application wide then you should follow below steps.

Step: Create a new resource dictionary (skip creating if you already have one) file and add the following code to it.

<Style x:Key="ScrollBarTrackThumb"
        TargetType="{x:Type Thumb}">
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Thumb}">
                <Grid x:Name="Grid">
                    <Rectangle HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
                                VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
                                Width="Auto"
                                Height="Auto"
                                Fill="Transparent" />
                    <Border x:Name="CornerScrollBarRectangle"
                            CornerRadius="5"
                            HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
                            VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
                            Width="Auto"
                            Height="Auto"
                            Margin="0,1,0,1"
                            Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" />
                </Grid>
                <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                    <Trigger Property="Tag"
                                Value="Horizontal">
                        <Setter TargetName="CornerScrollBarRectangle"
                                Property="Width"
                                Value="Auto" />
                        <Setter TargetName="CornerScrollBarRectangle"
                                Property="Height"
                                Value="6" />
                    </Trigger>
                </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type ScrollBar}">
    <Setter Property="Stylus.IsFlicksEnabled"
            Value="false" />
    <Setter Property="Foreground"
            Value="#ADABAB" />
    <Setter Property="Background"
            Value="Transparent" />
    <Setter Property="Width"
            Value="7" />
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ScrollBar}">
                <Grid x:Name="GridRoot"
                        Width="7"
                        Background="{TemplateBinding Background}">
                    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                        <RowDefinition Height="0.00001*" />
                    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
                    <Track x:Name="PART_Track"
                            Grid.Row="0"
                            IsDirectionReversed="true"
                            Focusable="false">
                        <Track.Thumb>
                            <Thumb x:Name="Thumb"
                                    Background="{TemplateBinding Foreground}"
                                    Style="{DynamicResource ScrollBarTrackThumb}" />
                        </Track.Thumb>
                        <Track.IncreaseRepeatButton>
                            <RepeatButton x:Name="PageUp"
                                            Command="ScrollBar.PageDownCommand"
                                            Opacity="0"
                                            Focusable="false" />
                        </Track.IncreaseRepeatButton>
                        <Track.DecreaseRepeatButton>
                            <RepeatButton x:Name="PageDown"
                                            Command="ScrollBar.PageUpCommand"
                                            Opacity="0"
                                            Focusable="false" />
                        </Track.DecreaseRepeatButton>
                    </Track>
                </Grid>
                <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                    <Trigger SourceName="Thumb"
                                Property="IsMouseOver"
                                Value="true">
                        <Setter Value="{DynamicResource ButtonSelectBrush}"
                                TargetName="Thumb"
                                Property="Background" />
                    </Trigger>
                    <Trigger SourceName="Thumb"
                                Property="IsDragging"
                                Value="true">
                        <Setter Value="{DynamicResource DarkBrush}"
                                TargetName="Thumb"
                                Property="Background" />
                    </Trigger>

                    <Trigger Property="IsEnabled"
                                Value="false">
                        <Setter TargetName="Thumb"
                                Property="Visibility"
                                Value="Collapsed" />
                    </Trigger>
                    <Trigger Property="Orientation"
                                Value="Horizontal">
                        <Setter TargetName="GridRoot"
                                Property="LayoutTransform">
                            <Setter.Value>
                                <RotateTransform Angle="-90" />
                            </Setter.Value>
                        </Setter>
                        <Setter TargetName="PART_Track"
                                Property="LayoutTransform">
                            <Setter.Value>
                                <RotateTransform Angle="-90" />
                            </Setter.Value>
                        </Setter>
                        <Setter Property="Width"
                                Value="Auto" />
                        <Setter Property="Height"
                                Value="8" />
                        <Setter TargetName="Thumb"
                                Property="Tag"
                                Value="Horizontal" />
                        <Setter TargetName="PageDown"
                                Property="Command"
                                Value="ScrollBar.PageLeftCommand" />
                        <Setter TargetName="PageUp"
                                Property="Command"
                                Value="ScrollBar.PageRightCommand" />
                    </Trigger>
                </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

Step: Add reference of your newly created resource dictionary in your App.xaml file, it should be something to this:

<Application x:Class="SampleApplication.App"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml">
    <Application.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="DictionaryContainingScrollbarStyle.xaml" />
            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

Done !!

You will observere your scrollbar are rendered similar to the one I have shown in above screenshot.

Happy coding !!