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

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Sep 9th, 2004 @ 6:27 PM | 85,778 Views | 38 Comments
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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#Sep 9th, 2004 @ 8:35 PM
JustinKing2004
JustinKing2004
Justin
In the video it mentioned the sample code would be available for download. I cannot find anywhere here or on windowsforms.net
#Sep 9th, 2004 @ 8:37 PM
Cyonix
Cyonix
Me
Same here. Could you please post the custom controls?

Thanks.
#Sep 9th, 2004 @ 8:38 PM
scobleizer
scobleizer
I'm the video guy
An email to Joe is on its way.
#Sep 9th, 2004 @ 10:48 PM
lars
lars
So when are we going to see a video with the Office team? *hint hint*
#Sep 9th, 2004 @ 10:58 PM
scobleizer
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.
#Sep 10th, 2004 @ 1:25 AM
juliankay
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.
#Sep 10th, 2004 @ 3:23 AM
Kryptos
Kryptos
Backup People!

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



#Sep 10th, 2004 @ 5:56 AM
Tom Servo
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.
#Sep 10th, 2004 @ 7:18 AM
Joe Stegman
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.

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