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K L Nats - 15 Jan 2006 17:38 GMT

Is there any Wizard Control that comes with Winforms 2.0. I am aware of the
wizard control for ASP.NET 2.0.

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Tim Wilson - 15 Jan 2006 18:34 GMT

No. You'll need to create your own. There are a few free implementations
available, and there are commercial ones as well.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms/br
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> Is there any Wizard Control that comes with Winforms 2.0. I am aware of the
> wizard control for ASP.NET 2.0.

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K L Nats - 16 Jan 2006 03:23 GMT

Thanks for your response.
Do you know in the UIPAB block that Microsoft had earlier for .NET 1.1 works
for .NET 2.0? If it works, do you know how that compares to the commerically
available controls that you have mntioned?

> No. You'll need to create your own. There are a few free implementations
> available, and there are commercial ones as well.
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>> wizard control for ASP.NET 2.0.

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Tim Wilson - 16 Jan 2006 03:37 GMT

I'm not familiar with the UIP Application Block. I know that the Composite
UI Application Block was written for the .NET Framework 2.0. So if you're
looking for UI guidance you may want to start there.

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> Thanks for your response.
> Do you know in the UIPAB block that Microsoft had earlier for .NET 1.1 works
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> > No. You'll need to create your own. There are a few free implementations
> > available, and there are commercial ones as well.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms/br
owse_thread/thread/57b52002756d6b50/9891c2c0167f20d0?hl=en#9891c2c0167f20d0

> >> Is there any Wizard Control that comes with Winforms 2.0. I am aware of
> > the
> >> wizard control for ASP.NET 2.0.

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K L Nats - 16 Jan 2006 05:31 GMT

UI Process App Block had functionality that helped in building flexible
wizard-like UI for both asp.net and windows forms, whereas the Composite UI
Application Block you mentioned here solves a completely different problem
related to rich and complex UIs. I could not locate UIPAB for .NET 2.0. Last
release I could find was UIPAB 2.0 for .NET 1.1 Perhaps Microsoft has not
made it available for .NET 2.0, as there are alternate ways to do similar
things atleast for ASP.NET?? I am not sure.

> I'm not familiar with the UIP Application Block. I know that the Composite
> UI Application Block was written for the .NET Framework 2.0. So if you're
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Tim Wilson - 16 Jan 2006 13:44 GMT

I mentioned the Composite UI Application Block as I could have sworn that I
heard that this is the *new* offering from MS when it comes to UI control
and flow. But I haven't gone completely through it yet. AFAIK, the UIPAB is
only available from MS under the 1.1 framework.

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> UI Process App Block had functionality that helped in building flexible
> wizard-like UI for both asp.net and windows forms, whereas the Composite UI
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> >> > implementations
> >> > available, and there are commercial ones as well.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms/br
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> >> >> Is there any Wizard Control that comes with Winforms 2.0. I am aware
> >> >> of
> >> > the
> >> >> wizard control for ASP.NET 2.0.

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Mick Doherty - 15 Jan 2006 22:01 GMT

You can use a TabControl with a minor modification. Just use buttons to
increment/decrement the SelectedIndex of the TabControl.

For the modifications needed for the TabControl see the example on my site
titled "Add a HideTabs property to turn on/off the Tabs"
http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrols.html

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> Is there any Wizard Control that comes with Winforms 2.0. I am aware of
> the wizard control for ASP.NET 2.0.

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K L Nats - 16 Jan 2006 03:26 GMT

Thanks for your response.
That sounds like a very quick approach. But if one has lot of pages and many
controls within a page, don't you think this approach would consume lot of
memory as all tabs and controls on the tabs would be always loaded?

> You can use a TabControl with a minor modification. Just use buttons to
> increment/decrement the SelectedIndex of the TabControl.
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>> Is there any Wizard Control that comes with Winforms 2.0. I am aware of
>> the wizard control for ASP.NET 2.0.

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Mick Doherty - 16 Jan 2006 11:02 GMT

Tabpages will only be loaded as they are selected, but once they have been,
then they are never unloaded, only made not Visible. As to how much memory
an hidden control consumes, I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that.

I'm not sure that a Wizard control would behave any differently to a
TabControl as it's basicly going to manage a collection of Panels, which
again would only be hidden as any changes made would need to be persisted,
and the author of the control would have no idea of the content you put onto
the page. Users would be most upset if they had to resubmit data on a page
they went back to, because the information had not been persisted.

Another option you have is to create UserControls which you could
dynamically load/unload at runtime. This option also has the benefit of
several programmers being able to work on different pages at the same time.

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> Thanks for your response.
> That sounds like a very quick approach. But if one has lot of pages and
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>>> Is there any Wizard Control that comes with Winforms 2.0. I am aware of
>>> the wizard control for ASP.NET 2.0.

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