App Modules?

[Pe Woerner]

Hi,
I need to write an app that has a admin part and a number
of modules to be plugged in (via config file or so). How
can I design those modules to be extended in the future?
Different exe files seem to be the only way to be able to
use the form designer, but there is the problem with
calling them as modal applications (and returning to the
main screen thereafter). Custom control (modules) in CF
seem to be handled only via coding, which makes them
unhandy to extend or adapt to different user scenarios..?
Any suggestions?? Has anyone ever had such design
questions?

TIA, Peter

 

[Andrew McGrath]

Hi Peter,

If you look at our Dynamic Framework product at www.mcsoft.com.au you will
see that you can have custom controls working in the designer with .NET
Compact Framework.

Also you can create a "Framework" for each particular application that only
includes the specific features that you need for an individual application,
and leave out other features, keeping your footprint to a minimum. Basically
you can create a framework of controls and common functionality in a DLL
using our build dialogs and then write an exe to wrap that and provide the
final look and feel for a particular application.

With the source code version, you can add your own features and have them
managed by our build dialogs as well.

Please write to me directly if you have further queries.

Regards

Andrew
www.mcsoft.com.au

 

[Hollywood]

Odd, works now... eh, oh well.

I just tried it and it worked fine.

1. Add a reference to the project to System.Windows.Forms
2. Add the following code, adjusting the namespace as necessary:

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace MyLibrary
{
public class Class1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
public Class1()
{
}
}
}