Joe Stegman - Developing rich user interfaces with Windows Forms

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Sep 9th, 2004 @ 6:38 PM | 129,239 Views | 25 Comments
Connected applications. Rich clients. Smart Clients. Windows applications. Great looking applications. Higher productivity applications.

Whatever you call them, there is a whole world of application development beyond what you can do with HTML and the browser.

Joe Stegman, lead program manager on the Windows Forms team takes you through a bunch of demo applications that were built with Visual Studio 2005 and the next Windows Forms technology.

One of the applications he demos here is a clone of MSN Messenger. Another is a really cool looking RSS News Aggregator.

Make sure you don't miss the second part of this demo where Joe shows off how you can build an app that looks suspiciously like Microsoft Outlook 2003.

What do you think? Are you looking forward to building applications like these?
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#Sep 9th, 2004 @ 8:41 PM
Cyonix
Cyonix
Me
The end of this video is the same as the previous post: Building Outlook UI in 100 lines of code with Winforms....
#Sep 9th, 2004 @ 8:53 PM
scobleizer
scobleizer
I'm the video guy
I just watched them again, it's part one and part two. Sorry for splitting them up somewhat awkwardly.
#Sep 9th, 2004 @ 8:54 PM
CRPietschmann
CRPietschmann
Chris Pietschmann
Where can we download these sample apps?
#Sep 9th, 2004 @ 9:15 PM
scobleizer
scobleizer
I'm the video guy
I have an email into Joe. I believe he was planning on posting them to www.windowsforms.net. It might take a while to get the Outlook one posted because it relies on Whidbey stuff that the public might not have yet. I'll get him to come up here and give the details, though.
#Sep 9th, 2004 @ 11:58 PM
lars
lars
The video quality of the screen recording has improved a lot. Good work!

#Sep 10th, 2004 @ 12:31 AM
rasx
rasx
Programmer/Analyst III, Emperor of String.Empty
Windows Forms 1.x is an old black and white movie; Windows Forms 2 is in full color with computer-generated special effects!

It makes perfect sense to build a toolbar like we configure toolbars in Office. It makes perfect sense to make apps look like just another Office app.
#Sep 10th, 2004 @ 3:11 AM
Kryptos
Kryptos
Backup People!
Whooo!

I read on someone's blog the other day that around 50%+ developers are using .NET.

I belive those who haven't move over yet will find it really hard to resist to VS2005.

I was thinking while watching why would I want to build an outlook clone..... then Joe answered that question. Which really does make sense!


Good Work!


It's still a little hard to hear the interviewer....great video other wise.
#Sep 10th, 2004 @ 7:24 AM
Joe Stegman
Joe Stegman

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

#Sep 10th, 2004 @ 7:27 AM
Sk4rlath
Sk4rlath
The lesser of two Sampys (in age only).
Totally sweet - Whidbey WinForms are lightyears ahead of everything else.

But...

Can you guys make me a ControlList or something?  I find myself wanting to make a 'list of controls', sort of like a custom-drawn listbox, but instead of having to write all that paint logic I can just point the list at a control type (or fill the list with controls). That way I could have a button list, etc.

You do make great strides in this direction though.  I'm currently abusing the FlowLayoutPanel to do just what I've described. But having to wire up event handlers for resizing can get to be a pain (god forbid I, a developer, actually write any code! <g>).
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