Joe Stegman - Building Outlook UI in 100 lines of code with Winforms

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Sep 9th, 2004 @ 6:27 PM | 85,289 Views | 38 Comments

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Joe Stegman, lead program manager on the WinForms team (.NET client) has one of the more impressive demos we've seen.

Check this out. You can build a clone of Outlook in 100 lines of code (using the next version of Visual Studio and Windows Forms).

For the significance of this we need to take you back to the early 1990s back before we first saw Visual Basic. It used to take 400 lines of C code just to draw a Window on the screen back then.

The Windows Forms website has more demos and samples. Don't miss the first part of Joe's demo where he shows off other Windows Forms-based applications including an app that looks very close to MSN Messenger but is actually built completely in .NET.

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JustinKing2004
Justin

In the video it mentioned the sample code would be available for download. I cannot find anywhere here or on windowsforms.net

Cyonix
Me

Same here. Could you please post the custom controls?

Thanks.

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

An email to Joe is on its way.

lars

So when are we going to see a video with the Office team? *hint hint*

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

I don't know many people over on the Office team. I'll try again.

Chris Pratley of OneNote is signed up for a demo in the future.

juliankay

I for one would LOVE to see some stuff from Chris Pratley, I've read his blog and he really, really knows his stuff.

Kryptos
Backup People!

Again, this is cool. We need sampled code......

Tom Servo
W-hat?

Related topic: Why is the toolstrip support so simplistic in WinForms 2.0? And why are there no docking windows? All that stuff is available full-featured in WTL, but not WinForms 2.0.

I'm currently using SandBar and SandDock from divil.co.uk, but I'd rather have WinForms supply the same controls as WTL does.

Joe Stegman

We are planning on posting a Beta 1 version of the Outlook UI sample to http://www.windowsforms.net at the end of this month.