Are there any opinions on whether or not it is bad design to reuse a Form or Control in a WinForms .NET application by giving it multiple modes? I often find myself wanting to do this. I'll have some UI that needs to be used in multiple places and instead of reusing the code, I'll give the form a mode that determines things like what tex...
I want to disable link button after clicking of it & other enable. toggle enable/ disable between both link buttons using c# ...
I'm on a new project and the BA's want to use StyleVision and some of the other Altova tools to work with the client and IM guys. Altova lists integration with VS. Basically, BA takes xsd, mocks up UI with it and then I use that to wire everything up. This is going to be a ASP.NET maybe WPF/Silverlight project. Does anybody have any...
I am giving a short talk on the subject from a programmer's perspective. I was thinking about talking about UI design along 3 axes: Proximity: How close the code you write is to the UI Interactivity: How flexible and powerful the UI can be Complexity: How difficult it is to build a user interface (technical/implementation) I was the...
Hello. I have a webcontrol with a handful of links displayed at the top, eg: Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 Currently they're each an asp:Hyperlink. Is there a clever solution for rendering out the dividing pipe characters? Currently they're within the containing placeholder. We can't make any guarantees about a given link always appearing...
I make calls to a WCF service from my silverlight application. I am doing this asynchronously and I am not blocking execution after making the async. call (that means, I am not using wait-join mechanism frm this page). I do not want the flow to get blocked. However, I would like to detect that the WCF call has gone into a wait state so ...
I am using the standard asp:Calendar control. When a user clicks a date, I am showing a modal popup by handling the SelectionChanged event. However this means that nothing happens if the user clicks a date, then closes the popup, then clicks the same date again. I'd rather be handling a DateClick event, and do away with the concept of ...
Sorry, really newbie question, but if I was to create an ASP.NET website application, such as a calendar of events linked to a database - would the user interacting with this Calendar be using Active X? Don't really know how to put that question any other way. Reason I ask is that my works system blocks Active X controls and therefore t...
I'm looking to build a .Net application that has a UI similar to that of Visual Studio. Is there a name for that paradigm? Or does anyone know of a tutorial to do so...or even an OSS project that utilizes that paradigm? I'm looking for like the docking aspects and the interaction between panels... 99% of my experience is in the web s...
I'm need run a couple of validatins that depend on the decisions of the user (for example, if aprove a purchase above the spending limit), and deny the "done" action if it's fail. However, look like is not possible have a truly modal action like with other languajes (like showmessage, alert(), etc) and everything is by delegates. But t...
I am studying the css methods Google uses to create their ui. I realized that the css code on their home page contains no reference to their search box; it seems like just a naked input tag, with not a border, background image or any of the conventions normally used to stylize a border. And yet it can display not only a hue and a kind of...
On most sites on the register user part they want you to enter password 2 times. Why is that? Why not just one input where you enter password? Why do you have to "confirm" it. You know Username Password Confirm password Submit This has been on my mind for a while... Hope somebody can answer this. Thanks ...
Hi, Does anyone have good examples of software that has a fantastic first run experience? Some software obviously just works "out of the box". However, there is significant software that requires some configuration before it's usable. Any examples would be much appreciated. Cheers, Yi ...
Hello all, We're currently working on a solution that involves managing a large number of parts for a project. In our database, we have a project table and we have a parts table. Those parts can be assigned to multiple projects and vise-versa. This is done through a link table. We're happy on the database side and it wont be changed, h...
I have a DataGridView that is displaying a List of objects (not DataSet). Is there an easy way to set a filter, so the DGV will only display rows that match the filter? IList<T> log = ...; dgv.DataSource = log; ...
Hello, I'm getting in to a situation where I have several interacting widgets (on a web UI), all of whom can be in multiple different states, and whose behavior depends on others the others. I'm running in to situations where, for example, a set of data gets sorted twice, or the data gets displayed before it's sorted, rather than the oth...
This is a wheel that's been re-invented again and again over the years. The Problem: The user needs to input a Date/Time Basic considerations We want to make it as easy as possible for the user to enter the desired date/time Some applications call for historical dates, some applications call for future dates only, some will need to ...
I am designing a threaded message display for a PHP/MySQL application - like comments on Slashdot or Youtube - and am wondering how I should go about ordering the comments and separating it into pages so that you can have, say, 20 comments to a page but still have them nested. Comments in my app can be nested unlimited levels, and this ...
*I'm using Java. I have this thread, agent, that explores a room to determine its size and clean it if it's dirty. Then I have the interface, which draws the agent as it explores the environment. Agent is subclassed from Thread, and Java takes care of managing the threads. All I do is create the thread and say object.start(). This work...
I'm searching for a User Interface Design tool to visualize a possible GUI in a documentation. I must not generate code. I know that Microsoft Visio provides a functionality. But are there any alternatives? Which software do you use for visualizing a GUI? Thank you in advance. Best regards from Switzerland Thomas PS. Another well-know...