3rd-party UI Libraries For WinForms, WPF, MVC, Etc. Are Best?
Jan 1, 2010
I work with many diverse technologies, and don't possess the time to evaluate every single UI framework, so I'd appreciate hearing other coders' experiences with various frameworks.
The stuff I've worked with so far (and my perceptions):
WinForms: DevExpress (love the looks, hate the API and bloat), Krypton (free!, looks good, but limited), Telerik (don't like the looks)WPF: have only used WPF Themes pack. Asp.Net: Telerik MVC Controls (love it), jQuery UI (looks great)
I am looking for free "Open Source" controls (respectivels control libraries) for Winforms, WPF and ASP.NET with (very) liberal licences (like MIT-, Apache or BSD-Licence; not GPL or LGPL!), which can be used in commercial projects with proprietary licences.
I have a library that is meant to be used by many websites. The way I am doing it now is in the library's properties, I set the "Post-build event command line" to: copy "$(TargetPath)" "$(SolutionDir)MyWebsitein$(TargetFileName)"
Every time I want a new website to use the shared library, I add a new line like this: copy "$(TargetPath)" "$(SolutionDir)MyWebsite2in$(TargetFileName)"
Is there an easy or better way to do this besides using the GAC?
Why is there a need to explicitly call GridView.DataBind() to render the gridview. Why wouldn't it render by itself automatically like how it happens in Window Forms?
We have an ASP.net application but some screens are deemed too slow to use by our users.As a result, we are trying to provide a WinForms-based alternative to those data-input centric screens so we can use richer controls like Grids with immediate screen updates and feedback for the user.
Ideally, I would like the users to login to the WinForms application using the same credentials they use in the ASP.net application?
Is it possible?I've found this post ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1172069/net-authentication-for-both-web-and-winforms ) but it isn't really answering the question from my point of view... We are not using WebServices, or WCF at the moment and do not plan to use it unless it is really the only way to achieve this.
I know S#arp architecture is built for ASP.NET MVC. But I'm wondering if it can be used in classic ASP.NET (WebForms) or even desktop applications like WinForms or WPF.
I need to know whether there will be any problem using win forms control as a custom control in my web app. Problems can be anything related to display, environment where the site is run.
Reason for using is I am not getting the treeview events in web which are there in win app. I need to implement drag drop of treeview nodes to a listbox.
We have an application coded in .NET 1.1. We plan to upgrade to .NET 3.5
But there are few core libraries written in .NET 1.1 that we use from other groups.My question is will our 3.5 app can still reference those 1.1 libraries? Or do we have convert them also to .NET 3.5?
I have a Solution that has two class libraries. I'm trying to convert the whole solution from asp.net 3.5 to 4.
Right now the libraries are in my Visual Studio 2008 projects folder. I've installed VS 2010. Should I just copy the libraries from the 2008 project folder to my 2010 project folder and open them in VS 2010?
What is the best practices for this? The entire solution is in a single folder in my VS 2008 Project folder, and each application and class library is in their own subfolder.
my application not working when I publish (only files needed to run this application) it to the server. I set wildcard mapping in IIS. I'm getting the error below:
HTTP Error 404.4 - Not Found
The resource you are looking for does not have a handler associated with it.
in asp.net we can handle the RowDataBound event of the GridView control. this event fires when every row is added to the gridview.
i want to be able to handle this event in the gridview in a winforms application but i cannot find a similar event. my question is what is the event name that allows me to do the same as RowDataBound in asp.net?
How can i create a window that holds Patient data in it? The 2 records that you see is in List View. I would then using ContextMenuStrip for text "View Details". When View Details is clicked i need to show the context. For web development this could be done via Javascript,div and panels. How that should be WinForms?
I need to find a child control in a winforms panel. I was wondering if there is a method similar to Panel.FindControl() of the asp.net webforms panel in the .net winforms version
Task is to develop class libraries that can be re-use in projects but assambies should be copy righted. By this I mean developer will not give the code of class libraries to the clients yet they will provide the code of there sites/ applications, these libraries will be used just as internal development libraries. I want to make Business Logic Layer, DAL, Business Objects as class libraries
Q1. How I can control unathorised use of libraries ?
I am starting an MVC application and designing the class libraries structure at the moment. I started off with the following class library structure as below.
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As there will be about 3-4 developers working on the project I thought it might be useful to split out each section of the application into their own class libraries so each developer can work on a different section without interferring with each other.
In our application we have 5 tabs e.g. Dashboard, Admin, Reports, Editor, Subscribers. Would it be wise to put each tab into its own class library like below.
Does anyone know of a good treeview control/libraries that is free, and fully customizable? Different nodes need to be able to have different icons/folder images. It needs dashed lines to show the parent nodes, etc, etc.
From a class library, I need to determine at run-time whether I'm running in an ASP.NET app or a WinForms/console app. There have been several other questions asked on the subject, but all of those solutions require adding a reference to System.Web. If at all possible, when running my console and WinForms apps, I don't want to load the System.Web assembly into memory just for one line of code out of thousands.
I'd like to create a custom datasource that is shared between a Winforms and Webforms project. This functions as a middle layer for a reporting tool(DevExpress Reporting). The Webforms project is a designer for these reports. So we want for the reports to be capable of going to the server to get data and such. So our datasource would abstract away all the communication overhead. Then, for consistency, the datasource would also run on the server for reporting, except for their would be no communication.
What would be the best course of action? There doesn't seem to be such a thing as a DataSource in Winforms. Is DataSource not the thing I'm looking for?
Edit: After some research, it appears that IDataAdapter may be good for my purpose. Any opinion on that?
After developing ASP.NET apps exclusively for several years I'm about to start developing Winforms apps. What are the gotchas that I should be looking out for with this changes? For instance the way object lifetime is managed in the winforms paradigm. I'm sure there must be plenty of gotchas / differences between the two that I need to be mindful of.
I'm in the process of building a webforms site. In the grand tradition of programmers, I have been looking for collections of skins/themes/css for asp.net controls to avoid the work of building them myself.Especially since I'm graphically challenged. I've found numerous sites with templates for drupal, DNN, etc but the only places I've found asp.net control themes/skin/css collections is within commercial component libs that cost more than i'm able to afford.
The absence of these collections is also making me question how I'm building the site since I assume the "theme" sites would be providing these collections if there was a demand.
Can anyone point me to where I can find inexpensive or free asp.net theme/skin collections or give me some pointers about how to build a site without requiring a bunch of work to create them from scratch.
