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user134146
user134146

Reputation:

Efficient way of creating lots of winforms (about 50) for a vb.net application

I am working on a vb.net application with winforms and need to create lots of forms (about 50) for the user interface.

The layout of the forms schould be the same in terms of size (1920x1080), background colours, fonts, size of the controls etc.

Is there a way of creating winforms very efficient without creating every form with the designer?

I would like to define somekind of a template which the other forms are based on.

Should i create the forms with code without using the designer or is there a better way? Any ideas or best practices are welcome.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 184

Answers (2)

Yogi
Yogi

Reputation: 9759

You can create the form with all the specification like size, background colours, fonts etc as your base form. This will act as your template.

Now when you add a new form it inherits from Form class by default. Instead of Form simply inherit your form from the BaseForm.

To have uniformity with the controls, you can create User Controls and use them instead to windows form controls.

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Upvotes: 5

SSS
SSS

Reputation: 5403

Public Class Form1

  Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    For i As Integer = 1 To 50
      Dim f As New Form
      f.Text = "Form " & i.ToString
      f.Width = 1920
      f.Height = 1080
      Dim b As New Button
      AddHandler b.Click, AddressOf CloseButton
      b.Text = "Close " & i.ToString
      b.Top = 100
      b.Left = 100
      b.Visible = True
      f.Controls.Add(b)
      f.Visible = True
    Next i
  End Sub

  Private Sub CloseButton(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
    Dim b As Button = DirectCast(sender, Button)
    b.FindForm.Close()
  End Sub
End Class

Upvotes: 0

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