Here is a nice post by Jeff Atwood, with a really cool idea that I like. Using a free form address field instead of seperating the fields.
On the one hand, it's easier for the user, since this is easy to grasp. On the other hand, we can't you auto complete. Read the comments, they are interesting, and be sure to check the screen shot he has there.
This is purely hypotetical, but imagine the following way to show the user's details:
User user = ... ;//Get user something
var view = new View( user,
new Text(u => u.Name, s => user.Name = s),
new Password( u => u.Password, s => user.Password = s ),
new List(from g in user.Groups select g, g => user.Groups.Add(g), g => user.Groups.Remove(g)) );
view.Show();
Where View is a class which display view items in a TableLayout. And each item knows how to handle changes. This could be a very rapid way to create UI.
What do you think?
I'm currently developing an application that need to display source code (XML & Sql).
Most of the works goes into the UI, I rarely touch the back-end, just put stuff in the UI to make it nicer to work with the application.
I desperately need stable control for source editing (syntax highighting a must, code completion would be nice.)
Currently I'm at a loss.
I tried RichTextEditor and ICSharpCode.TextEditor but both doesn't work for me.
I need a configurable editor that can handle XML, C# & SQL, support
word-wrapping (where ICSharpCode.TextEditor failed) and that I can
actually understand how to use (Which was the deciding point of not
using RichTextEditor).
I would've gone with ScintillaNET but while I'm certain that it can support my needs, there isn't any documentation about using it.
The second control that I need is a TreeListView (you know, a tree with columns) but all the controls that I've found so far were buggy. (I tried everything that I found in Code Project
These UI problems are holding me from going on with the interesting stuff :-(
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