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  • Jon
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    Plugin Software Components

    I once read a pretty good article using VB 6 on how to design a framework using MDI forms and ActiveX controls to display different documents. It was a pretty good tutorial and I have been looking for something similar for VB.NET. What I am trying to do is code a framework and by adding different components display different data. If I choose to have a component that displays TV schedules say I can add that component and start showing them along side say a calander of events component.

    I am not be using the correct terms so any help would be greatly appreciated as I am pretty new to .NET.

    Thanks,
    Jon


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    • Lloyd Sheen
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      Re: Plugin Software Components


      "Jon" <None@None.comw rote in message
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      >I once read a pretty good article using VB 6 on how to design a framework
      >using MDI forms and ActiveX controls to display different documents. It was
      >a pretty good tutorial and I have been looking for something similar for
      >VB.NET. What I am trying to do is code a framework and by adding different
      >components display different data. If I choose to have a component that
      >displays TV schedules say I can add that component and start showing them
      >along side say a calander of events component.
      >
      I am not be using the correct terms so any help would be greatly
      appreciated as I am pretty new to .NET.
      >
      Thanks,
      Jon
      >
      >
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      I think what you want to look into are Interfaces. Lets suppose you have a
      "framework" app. Now you define the app to have a menu (an Interface), a
      toolbar (an Interface), a navigation area (an Interface) , a status bar (an
      Interface) and a user form area (another Interface).

      Now you can create usercontrols / forms (for MDI) that implement those
      interfaces and you are on your way. Lots of work to create an interface but
      that is the embryo of the idea. I have done this for a media player I
      designed. The app provides services to play various media types and I can
      use several navigators to provide the views of the media.

      Lloyd Sheen

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