Hopefully you won't think I'm trying to get you to make proprietary information public, but the amount of work you'd need to do in order to create an add-in for VS is so much less than building from scratch, I'd encourage you to indicate what you're thinking of so others can comment on the difficulty of creating an add-in (vs a new designer). Note that you would have a very large market if you made a VS add-in, but a rather small one if you were suggesting to people that they use a different designer than the one that's built into VS.
There is quite a bit of add-in-creation assistance available if you use the DXCore code available for free from <http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/DXCore/>http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/DXCore/ However, if you're thinking of building something commercial, you might not want to use DXCore -- except perhaps to prove to yourself that your idea is in fact useful. At 09:00 AM 6/28/2006, Mike Andrews wrote >Guys, > >I have an idea for a new type of form designer. Essentially the same form >designer with an added ability. >I can't seem to find anything useful on creating a designer either from >scratch, or inheriting an existing designer and making use of it. > >Do any of you any any suggestions for where to look or how to do it? > >Thanks, >Mike J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
