Ideas for windows form

[frostcox]

Hey guys im just looking for a few ideas of design for a nice windows form. I created a program that runs 250 tests based on different senarios and inserts the results into 7 different tables in the db. Now I want to create a form to show the results to the user. Im just drawing blanks on the design and what options the user should have. Thanks

[Lost User]

• The user should be able to filter the data he/she is viewing.
  250 tests might generate a lot of data, and the user is probably interested in something specific - like all of last weeks' tests.* A gridview to visualize the data that the user selected
  If it's a large set, virtualize your DataGridView.* Show some charts
  A nice pie cut into the amount of tests of that week, a graph telling how often a test failed.* Reports
  One that lists all the tests, one that lists all failed etc.

Hope this helps a bit :)

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[frostcox]

Yeah cool that gives me something to work with thanks very much.

[Abhinav S]

If you don't need to do data entry then just use reports - you would not need any screens.

[frostcox]

What do you mean like output results to excel, txt or PDF files???

[Benaiah Mischenko]

No, he means something like Crystal Reports (bundled in VS2003-2008) or SQL Server Reporting Services (VS2010).

[frostcox]

Ok thanks very much il do some research on them. Cheers