I'll repeat it, I suck at Winforms coding, so anything that makes my life easier (i.e. This amazing set of controls are visually great, and more importantly for me, they have amazingly good documentation. Well, after a bit of searching, I came across the Krypton Toolkit. I have learned the hard way that all your great coding can be wasted by a poor looking demo, first impressions count. My Winforms always look like they were designed in the far reaches of the past.Īs the UI is really all that many decision makers see of a prototype, this is where your hard work on an elegant and flexible architecture can fall apart - how many times have you heard people quibbling over the exact layout of the grid during a demo, and being totally disinterested in the miracles of code wizardry you have going on behind the scenes to recover the data.įundamentally, if you demo an application - make damn sure the UI looks amazing, because no matter what you think, that is what the people you were showing the application to will remember. Given a Winforms app I struggle to get anything that isn't grey and clunky. ![]() Give me a web application and I can make a UI that sings and dances, looks pretty, and is a joy to use. ![]() ![]() Here is the thing, I really, really suck at Winforms coding. As I have just been asked to prototype the front end application for the reference architecture that I have recently designed, I was in need of some help.
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