dynamic user interface (win app)

[Roy Lawson]

I want to enable the user to define parts of their user interface. I
am developing an application that does some accounting functions
(basicly the end user enters revenues for each account, and users will
frequently enter data in several accounts that I want visible based
upon the company).

Anyways, not that the brief description I just gave you will help, but
any ideas on how to dynamicly populate controls on a winform?? What
would be the winform equivilent of the ASP.NET repeater control? Or
am I on the wrong track?

Thanks,

-RL

[Darin]

Re: dynamic user interface (win app)

Roy,

I use a dataset the retrieves data from a db to dynamically build controls
on a winform. You could also use XML to do it. If you want to see an
example just respond back and I will email it to you or post the code on
here.

Good Luck

"Roy Lawson" <roy@xeon.tv> wrote in message
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> I want to enable the user to define parts of their user interface. I
> am developing an application that does some accounting functions
> (basicly the end user enters revenues for each account, and users will
> frequently enter data in several accounts that I want visible based
> upon the company).
>
> Anyways, not that the brief description I just gave you will help, but
> any ideas on how to dynamicly populate controls on a winform?? What
> would be the winform equivilent of the ASP.NET repeater control? Or
> am I on the wrong track?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -RL[/color]

[Simon]

Re: dynamic user interface (win app)

Hi all,

I am interested like to see the example. Could you post
the code here.

Thanks

Simon
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>Good Luck
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[Tian Min Huang]

RE: dynamic user interface (win app)

Hello,

Thanks for your post. As I understand, you want to dynamically add controls
to WinForms. Please correct me if there is any misunderstandin g. The Form
class in WinForm includes a control collection representing a collection
of controls on the form. We just need to create a control (say, button,
etc) and then add it to Form.ControlCol lection. I believe the following
articles/samples are helpful:

Form.ControlCol lection Class
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/cpref/html/
frlrfsystemwind owsformsformcon trolcollectionc lasstopic.asp?f rame=true

Adding a control to a form programmaticall y

http://www.developersdex.com/gurus/articles/62.asp

Please feel free to let me know if you have any problems or concerns.

Regards,

HuangTM
Microsoft Online Partner Support
MCSE/MCSD

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[Darin]

Re: dynamic user interface (win app)

Here is some code to create a dynamic control:
string controlType = System.Windows. Forms.Label or
System.Windows. Forms.TextBox.. .

Assembly assem = Assembly.GetAss embly(typeof(Fo rm));
Type t = assem.GetType(c ontrolType);
object obj = Activator.Creat eInstance(t);
Control tb = (Control)obj;
this.Controls.A dd(tb);

All of my data is stored in a db table and based on user input the app
retrieves the data to create the controls. It just loops through each row
retrieved. In a web app, I have used an XML file to create dynamic controls
using the same approach except for writing some code to extract the data
from the xml file.

I also have seen another approachs where you create component class with a
Factory Class, IControl interface, and Control Classes. I like the approach
above better because it gives you better control over creating the control.
Especially if you need to add event handlers and so on.

Hope this helps out.

"Roy Lawson" <roy@xeon.tv> wrote in message
news:c4e77fc0.0 312311435.fd914 09@posting.goog le.com...[color=blue]
> I want to enable the user to define parts of their user interface. I
> am developing an application that does some accounting functions
> (basicly the end user enters revenues for each account, and users will
> frequently enter data in several accounts that I want visible based
> upon the company).
>
> Anyways, not that the brief description I just gave you will help, but
> any ideas on how to dynamicly populate controls on a winform?? What
> would be the winform equivilent of the ASP.NET repeater control? Or
> am I on the wrong track?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -RL[/color]