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WinFx: WPF Dynamically build UIHello EveryOne,
I'm currently playing a little bit with the new wpf in Visual Studio 2005. I was pretty excited about the posssibilities you have with XAML. I was wondering if it would be possible to dynamically build up a client's UI? Meaning like providing just a dumb application who load the necessary UI over the Web (for instance). Most of the "logic" should be remote. Has anyone an idea how to build something like this? Thanks Why not? You are talking about some sort of plugin application which can be
already done. -- Show quoteMiha Markic [MVP C#, INETA Country Leader for Slovenia] RightHand .NET consulting & development www.rthand.com Blog: http://cs.rthand.com/blogs/blog_with_righthand/ "LOBOMINATOR" <lobomina***@gmx.ch> wrote in message news:%23Xzcgf6uGHA.4748@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hello EveryOne, > > I'm currently playing a little bit with the new wpf in Visual Studio 2005. > I was pretty excited about the posssibilities you have with XAML. I was > wondering if it would be possible to dynamically build up a client's UI? > Meaning like providing just a dumb application who load the necessary UI > over the Web (for instance). Most of the "logic" should be remote. > > Has anyone an idea how to build something like this? > > Thanks > Hello Miha,
No I was talking about some sort of server that handles the control for the gui. I was wondering if there is a simpler solution to provide GUIs over the net. I mean XAML is a nice way to describe a GUI. Why not building up on a server dynamically a GUI Definition in XAML and then send it back to the client. Also the clients events would be handled from this server. Do you understand what I mean? Thanks Show quote "Miha Markic [MVP C#]" <miha at rthand com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:O4I8Sz6uGHA.4748@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Why not? You are talking about some sort of plugin application which can > be already done. > > -- > Miha Markic [MVP C#, INETA Country Leader for Slovenia] > RightHand .NET consulting & development www.rthand.com > Blog: http://cs.rthand.com/blogs/blog_with_righthand/ > > "LOBOMINATOR" <lobomina***@gmx.ch> wrote in message > news:%23Xzcgf6uGHA.4748@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> Hello EveryOne, >> >> I'm currently playing a little bit with the new wpf in Visual Studio >> 2005. I was pretty excited about the posssibilities you have with XAML. I >> was wondering if it would be possible to dynamically build up a client's >> UI? Meaning like providing just a dumb application who load the necessary >> UI over the Web (for instance). Most of the "logic" should be remote. >> >> Has anyone an idea how to build something like this? >> >> Thanks >> > > "LOBOMINATOR" <lobomina***@gmx.ch> wrote in message Sort of. But then, roundtrips/would kill your performance, won't they?news:OjJP3kFvGHA.4968@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hello Miha, > > No I was talking about some sort of server that handles the control for > the gui. I was wondering if there is a simpler solution to provide GUIs > over the net. I mean XAML is a nice way to describe a GUI. Why not > building up on a server dynamically a GUI Definition in XAML and then send > it back to the client. Also the clients events would be handled from this > server. Do you understand what I mean? -- Miha Markic [MVP C#, INETA Country Leader for Slovenia] RightHand .NET consulting & development www.rthand.com Blog: http://cs.rthand.com/blogs/blog_with_righthand/ Possible. That would be an other problem to struggle with. What I don't
understand is the fact that with XAML we have a nice way of describing a GUI. But I found no way to build up the XAML Markup dynamically and the transform it the a remote client and there parse the content of the XAML stream. Or do you think I'm on the wron track? Thanks for your help Show quote "Miha Markic [MVP C#]" <miha at rthand com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:%23xnfHuFvGHA.1288@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > "LOBOMINATOR" <lobomina***@gmx.ch> wrote in message > news:OjJP3kFvGHA.4968@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> Hello Miha, >> >> No I was talking about some sort of server that handles the control for >> the gui. I was wondering if there is a simpler solution to provide GUIs >> over the net. I mean XAML is a nice way to describe a GUI. Why not >> building up on a server dynamically a GUI Definition in XAML and then >> send it back to the client. Also the clients events would be handled from >> this server. Do you understand what I mean? > > Sort of. But then, roundtrips/would kill your performance, won't they? > > -- > Miha Markic [MVP C#, INETA Country Leader for Slovenia] > RightHand .NET consulting & development www.rthand.com > Blog: http://cs.rthand.com/blogs/blog_with_righthand/ > LOBOMINATOR wrote:
> Possible. That would be an other problem to struggle with. What I There's a class called XamlReader that can parse XAML and create the object > don't understand is the fact that with XAML we have a nice way of > describing a GUI. But I found no way to build up the XAML Markup > dynamically and the transform it the a remote client and there parse > the content of the XAML stream. Or do you think I'm on the wron track? (form, control, etc) that it describes. Once you have that object, you could connect event handlers to it's events that forward the events back to a server. You'd have to know in advance which events to hook, I think, since there will be literally hundreds of possible events from a form of any complexity. On the server side, I'm not aware of a XamlWriter class, but then I don't have access to the docs right now (they're on a different machine). In any case, you can always build an XmlDocument with the approrpiate XAML code and then serialize it to a string for transmissions to the remote client. -cd Hi,
Yes it is possible. Check out the Vista Smalltalk web site for some examples. http://vistascript.net Also, you can load "loose" XAML and add callbacks at runtime. -- Peter Fisk LOBOMINATOR wrote: Show quote > Hello EveryOne, > > I'm currently playing a little bit with the new wpf in Visual Studio 2005. I > was pretty excited about the posssibilities you have with XAML. I was > wondering if it would be possible to dynamically build up a client's UI? > Meaning like providing just a dumb application who load the necessary UI > over the Web (for instance). Most of the "logic" should be remote. > > Has anyone an idea how to build something like this? > > Thanks Hello Peter,
Vista Smalltalk sounds fantastic. But it would be nice if we could achieve this with C#. With System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader and XamlWriter class I was able to load XAML Markup during runtime. The problem is actually the eventhandler. I was wondering if it would be possible for example to do a remote databinding and also to attachement events dynamically during runtime without using smalltalk (no disrespect) Thanks for your Help <peter.f***@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag Show quote news:1155505484.594803.213010@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > > Yes it is possible. > Check out the Vista Smalltalk web site for some examples. > http://vistascript.net > > Also, you can load "loose" XAML and add callbacks at runtime. > > -- Peter Fisk > > > LOBOMINATOR wrote: >> Hello EveryOne, >> >> I'm currently playing a little bit with the new wpf in Visual Studio >> 2005. I >> was pretty excited about the posssibilities you have with XAML. I was >> wondering if it would be possible to dynamically build up a client's UI? >> Meaning like providing just a dumb application who load the necessary UI >> over the Web (for instance). Most of the "logic" should be remote. >> >> Has anyone an idea how to build something like this? >> >> Thanks > Hi,
once one knows how it is quite easy to implement the event routing in C# for several controls. Have a look at this thread: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.avalon&tid=c7606f01-a6ac-4f94-8b2e-a40dffd586c4&cat=en_US_d02fc761-3f6b-402c-82f6-ba1a8875c1a7&lang=en&cr=&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1. Show quote "LOBOMINATOR" wrote: > Hello Peter, > > > > Vista Smalltalk sounds fantastic. But it would be nice if we could achieve > this with C#. With System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader and XamlWriter class I > was able to load XAML Markup during runtime. The problem is actually the > eventhandler. I was wondering if it would be possible for example to do a > remote databinding and also to attachement events dynamically during runtime > without using smalltalk (no disrespect) > > > > Thanks for your Help > > > > <peter.f***@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:1155505484.594803.213010@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > > Hi, > > > > Yes it is possible. > > Check out the Vista Smalltalk web site for some examples. > > http://vistascript.net > > > > Also, you can load "loose" XAML and add callbacks at runtime. > > > > -- Peter Fisk > > > > > > LOBOMINATOR wrote: > >> Hello EveryOne, > >> > >> I'm currently playing a little bit with the new wpf in Visual Studio > >> 2005. I > >> was pretty excited about the posssibilities you have with XAML. I was > >> wondering if it would be possible to dynamically build up a client's UI? > >> Meaning like providing just a dumb application who load the necessary UI > >> over the Web (for instance). Most of the "logic" should be remote. > >> > >> Has anyone an idea how to build something like this? > >> > >> Thanks > > > > >  |
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