client UI question

[Berryl Hesh]

Is there an active forum like this one dedicated to gui mechanics?

I want to start doing some front end client work, off of some mvp type of
architecture variant, and realize I really don't know basic controls all
that well anymore, much less WPF.

My immediate question is what control would you use to display a two column
list of items (with some filter options) as an item picker. That doesn't
seem like the gist of this group though.

Thanks for any ideas.

BH

[Peter Duniho]

Re: client UI question

On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:36:39 -0700, Berryl Hesh <efinger9@yahoo .comwrote:

Is there an active forum like this one dedicated to gui mechanics?
>
I want to start doing some front end client work, off of some mvp type of
architecture variant, and realize I really don't know basic controls all
that well anymore, much less WPF.

If you're doing WPF specifically, then I think the "official" forum is a
Microsoft-run web-based forum. I don't have the URL off the top of my
head, but Google can turn it up for you, I suspect.

Another GUI framework in .NET is the "Forms" API, and there is a specific
newsgroup for that. Several, in fact, rooted at the
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.windowsform s newsgroup.

That said, while this newsgroup isn't specifically for GUI questions, and
in fact is nominally only for questions related to the C# language itself,
we wind up fielding a broad variety of questions related to writing .NET
programs, in the context of C#.

I would say that if your questions are going to be almost exclusively
related to the specific GUI API, then you would probably prefer one of the
more specific newsgroups. But if you expect to be asking a mix of C# and
..NET questions, you don't necessarily need to exclude the latter from this
newsgroup.

My immediate question is what control would you use to display a two
column
list of items (with some filter options) as an item picker. That doesn't
seem like the gist of this group though.

It's not. But you might look at the ListView control:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.listview.aspx

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "with some filter options", and the
control might not provide direct support for something like that, whatever
you do mean. But it's a place to start. :)

Pete