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Houlahan
Houlahan

Reputation: 783

Wpf/winforms create text boxes and labels from object

I'm often finding my self creating large objects with lots of properties for example customer data object including properties such as; First name Last name Address 1 Address 2 Address 3

Etc which I will have to write an interface for using labels and text boxes for each property giving them both id's which can get a bit tedious after a while.

Is there any kid of macro or source code which would do such a thing for me? I've searched on Google but I don't think I quite get the search for as I'm not entirely sure what I'm searching for.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 196

Answers (1)

hanskishore
hanskishore

Reputation: 361

I am assuming that you wanted some way to generate the controls dynamically, try something like this

public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        CreateControls();
    }

    private void CreateControls()
    {
        var c = new Customer("SomeFirstName", "SomeLastName", "Something");
        PropertyInfo[] pi = c.GetType().GetProperties();
        Label lbl;
        TextBox tb;
        StackPanel sp = new StackPanel();
        sp.Orientation = Orientation.Horizontal;
        foreach (var p in pi)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(p.Name);
            lbl = new Label();
            lbl.Content = p.Name;

            tb = new TextBox();
            tb.Text = p.GetValue(c, null).ToString();

            sp.Children.Add(lbl);
            sp.Children.Add(tb);
        }
       //Replace MainGrid with any control you want these to be added.
        MainGrid.Children.Add(sp);
    }


}

public class Customer
{
    public Customer(string first, string last, string title)
    {
        FirstName = first;
        LastName = last;
        Title = title;
    }
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
}

Upvotes: 0

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