[MonoDevelop] Forms Designer in MonoDevelop

Michael Hutchinson m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 19:19:33 EST 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:50 AM, jmalcolm <malcolm.justin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Michael, thank you for flagging that it is the GTK#/WinForms integration that
> will be the big issue in trying to embed a WinForms designer into
> MonoDevelop (even if only supported on the MS version of .NET).
>
> It sounds like the simplest solution for now would be the ability to launch
> a stand-alone WinForms designer from within MonoDevelop so that it was
> working on the correct form and having the resulting code changes handled
> gracefully back in MonoDevelop.  I might try to throw something like this
> together for my own use.

Well, the mwf-designer would be a good starting point:
http://www.mono-project.com/WinForms_Designer

it's probably also worth asking Ivan about the integration issues,
since i can't remember exactly what the problems were.

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com


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