Dynamic webcontrols in winforms
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Hi all ! I need to develop a application where users will drag & drop user controls on the design layout (same like in www.formlogix.com, need to develop similar kind of application). And also if you look at "Ironspeed" (www.ironspeed.com), this application does a gr8 job with out creating a simple application from scratch. Please download trial version and look at it. The layout will be similar to visual studio 2005, where we need to develop a toolbox, property box, solution explorer. And also i need to load user controls which was developed by another programmers. subsequently user will drag & drop controls from toolbox to a designer layout. Then i need to save that layout into a webpage. There are certain limitation as i came to know. 1. Controls included as Textbox, Listbox, Dropdownlist, Label, Command button, Radio buttons, check boxes and User Controls (which we need to develop with certain functionality) 2. How can we able to incorporate winforms controls on a webpage, i know this cannot be done in this way either can we able to incorporate webcontrols into a winform application? 3. do we need to build user controls in winform application or in webapplication ? 4. This application intially thought to build in a web application through AJAX concepts but i could not able build architecture later we changed to win application taking a prototype as in www.ironspeed.com. Guys, please help me building up the architecture as well as concepts to put in, appreciate your help and cooperation. :sigh::doh::(( Regards, krishna
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Hi all ! I need to develop a application where users will drag & drop user controls on the design layout (same like in www.formlogix.com, need to develop similar kind of application). And also if you look at "Ironspeed" (www.ironspeed.com), this application does a gr8 job with out creating a simple application from scratch. Please download trial version and look at it. The layout will be similar to visual studio 2005, where we need to develop a toolbox, property box, solution explorer. And also i need to load user controls which was developed by another programmers. subsequently user will drag & drop controls from toolbox to a designer layout. Then i need to save that layout into a webpage. There are certain limitation as i came to know. 1. Controls included as Textbox, Listbox, Dropdownlist, Label, Command button, Radio buttons, check boxes and User Controls (which we need to develop with certain functionality) 2. How can we able to incorporate winforms controls on a webpage, i know this cannot be done in this way either can we able to incorporate webcontrols into a winform application? 3. do we need to build user controls in winform application or in webapplication ? 4. This application intially thought to build in a web application through AJAX concepts but i could not able build architecture later we changed to win application taking a prototype as in www.ironspeed.com. Guys, please help me building up the architecture as well as concepts to put in, appreciate your help and cooperation. :sigh::doh::(( Regards, krishna
Sounds like you are taking very complex project... I just know that it must be way easier to develop that what you want as Windows application than ASP.NET + AJAX (this is answer to 3). In any case, good starting point would be to see how existing editors work - I found this article && you can take a look at SharpDevelop which is open source IDE for .NET (source code on this link). If you have more questions - shoot :)