Winform Designer Application

Question

Friends, I need a application for designing forms - in the style of visual studio/winform designer. Does anyone know any project I can use to study or adapt? At the end I need to develop a tool in C# that generates an XML containing all the formatting and screen elements.

Any help or recommendation is welcome. Thank you.

Answer 1

• You have the SharpDevelop Winforms Designer that can probably be adjusted to fit your needs.
• ...or perhaps the MonoDevelop Winforms Designer
• If that is not enough, have a look at this CodeProject article describing how to use a Microsoft Design Surface to implement a customer forms designer.

If you still need more detailed control, this MSDN article describes how to create your own .NET Forms Designer, more or less from scratch. It comes with source code and a pre-built executable.

In the end the solution depends on the details of your problem and the kind of user-support you need to provide.