I am searching for a designer or an IDE which can be used to create XForms by dragging and dropping elements.
I found visual XForms designer by IBM at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/vxd .
But it is not that user friendly.
Thanks in advance.
There is Orbeon Form Builder. See also the FAQ. It's open source.
It's not strictly a general-purpose XForms editor, but it's a form editor that deals with XHTML+XForms+extensions. If you don't want to use Orbeon Forms to process the forms generated, you could transform the result e.g. with XSLT.
(Disclaimer: I work on Orbeon Forms.)
I am also trying to find a good XForm designer. One that I found useful is Vellum - It is an XForms form designer written purely in Javascript and it's Open source.
Vellum targets modern browsers. IE8 and earlier are not supported. It is used in production by Commcare.
Oryx used to offer one: http://bpt.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/Oryx/XForms. The current code is unmaintained, but there is a github fork.
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until now I have used Bootstrap for building my sites.
I heard about Microsoft FAST web-controls, and I want to try it but there is no layout grid.
How am I supposed to do layouting in MS FAST?
I am no web designer, this is why I use bootstrap templates.
I also use Aurelia as my framework of choice to build web apps.
The answer to how are you supposed to do layouting is "there is no how". It's up to you.
What FAST offers is some building blocks (#microsoft/fast-foundation) to allow you to implement your custom design system. So you could go on using bootstrap or turn to material design or another choice.
Here's the link to the info supporting this answer: https://www.fast.design/docs/introduction/#how-can-fast-help-me
Regards.
I'm working on 13 years old .net application. They are using Custom Windows From Designer. Everything works fine till now, But every year they need to add new business in that application which is getting more difficult due to custom windows form designer . So they wanted to remove that Custom designer and use windows provided form designer which is more convinient and easy. I just need any reference documents/links/blogs which will help me to do this work. I already searched it but since now a days no one is using custom windows form designer that much , so not able to get proper guidance. Please do share your experince / links/information with me . Thanks
This looks a lot like a code migration. Typically, you'd migrate from one platform to another (e.g. Java to C#), or from one version to another (i.e. ASP classic to ASP.NET with VB.NET).
In this case, you want to migrate your code from a custom Win Form editor to Visual Studio. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a quick solution. The good news is that there are a wide array of "code converters" out there to help with a migration like this, and many are templatized, so you can decide how to handle edge conditions that don't line up precisely out of the box.
Here are some resources to get you started on the research:
https://www.greatmigrations.com/
https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2010/03/01/Unlocking-Legacy-Code.aspx
Does anyone know if the code editor used by VSTO IDE is available to use in my own projects?
I need to use a code editor in my project. I Googled to try to find one, but I found several third party solutions (pay or free) but they don't fit my needs.
In same way as Webbrowser control, is the "sourcecodeeditor" control of VSTO available to use as a project component?
In same way as Webbrowser control, is the "sourcecodeeditor" control of VSTO available to use as a project component?
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Exists the class "MSVSTOSourceCodeEditor"? This is the question. Thanks
Unfortunately, no. Microsoft doesn't allow you to subclass its source code editor, nor do they provide a version for use in your own projects. As I mentioned before, they don't really want to encourage you to rewrite Visual Studio. They'd prefer that you bought it instead!
Have you considered creating a plug-in or extension for Visual Studio instead? It's a little bit different way of going about it, but it just might work for you. Your developers might find it more convenient since they won't have to switch back and forth between two programs.
If you're really set on rolling your own custom solution, probably the best thing to do is check the source code for some of the open-source, Visual Studio-style IDEs, and see how they've written the code editor:
MonoDevelop
SharpDevelop
KDevelop
I've been googling and googling for vb.net examples with nice looking tabs.
I really really like this example (slide #4):
http://www.dotnetmagic.com/features_tabbedMDI.html
Has anyone come across any similar free vb.net tab controls with examples? I don't really need the control to be open source, just free :)
DevExpress is probably the best free controls library. And you can find a great TabControl in it. You will have to add it manually to the toolbox.
You have to register for a free license to download it. The download page is still online and working as of 2012-03-22, but cannot be reached by navigation on their website any more:
Free DevExpress Controls download
(In an email response they stated this was because they significantly changed their website.
Also, they said these controls can be used royalty-free even in commercial applications, and without having to include any copyright notices.)
Its name is XtraTabControl
Namespace: DevExpress.XtraTab
Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditor.vXX.X (where XX.X is the version of the XtraEditor, mine is 11.1)
Although you could google the answer, there's some links to get you started:
The Code Project, check under desktop development.
Telerik is a known control developer, offers some controls for free.
Component Factory is another good option.
As of Developer Express v2011 vol 2 (at least, probably earlier), the Tab Control is not free. Used to, you could put it on a form and run without a nag screen. Not the case now.
This is the best free one I could find:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/tabs/KRBTabControl.aspx
I'm searching for an open source runtime form designer (for SCADA, not searching for html designer), which is somewhat similar to modern IDE WYSIWYG's. So far, my list is empty.
Requirements are crossplatform and C++.
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE:
Currently I'm using wxWidgets as the GUI platform. So the possible solutions are either open-source wxWidgets based form designer, or the wxWidgets component/lib.
UPDATE 2:
Found the wxShapeFramework component which is I was looking for. At the moment this is the only option.
Maybe Qt would satisfy your needs. It is possible to extend it's functionality with new components. It's not out-of-the-box solution, but may fulfill this role.
How about Glade and gtkmm?
Qt allows you to use UI files created with the designer on-the-fly, without compiling them into your applications. You want the QtUiTools module. See: http://www.forum.nokia.com/infocenter/topic/Qt_for_S60_Developers_Library/GUID-ECBE8350-9D54-48D1-B777-264B895B9063/designer-using-a-ui-file.html and http://www.forum.nokia.com/infocenter/topic/Qt_for_S60_Developers_Library/GUID-ECBE8350-9D54-48D1-B777-264B895B9063/qtuitools.html.
I'm going to use wxShapeFramework, which purpose is exactly as described in question (SCADA runtime form designer). Especially because the project is based on wxWidgets.