Hi, This is the question that i've been thinking about for some time. My idea is to design a GUI form, and save it in some format (probably XML based) and then render it to different types of environments like web or windows forms. XUL on java is based on this idea, if i'm not wrong, and XAML will allow something similar (i am not sure much about both of these statements, so please forgive me if i'm wrong) The idea is to design a user interface and to use it's definition to generate GUI forms on the fly for different environments. This would speed things a lot, especially for enterprise development. I'd definitely like to hear comments/suggestions on this one Best Regards Seref Arikan
-----Original Message----- From: Moderated discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vipul Patel Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Using a common form for web and windows-based application. We have a GUI based windows application and a Web based application. Both the applications are accessing the same business logic to display the data. We have separately created Windows forms for Windows application and Web forms for the web application. Is there a way by which we can save these forms (either windows forms or web forms) as a shared dll so that the two applications display the same forms and we don't have to create the forms for each application. If it is not possible using Visual Studio .net then are there any third party tools which can be used to accomplish this. I have heard about Infragistics but don't know more on this. Does it provide the facility of using same forms for windows and web applications? Regards, Vipul Patel =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com Some .NET courses you may be interested in: NEW! Guerrilla ASP.NET, 17 May 2004, in Los Angeles http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnetls View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com Some .NET courses you may be interested in: NEW! Guerrilla ASP.NET, 17 May 2004, in Los Angeles http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnetls View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
