Designbox
Encyclopedia
Designbox for Visual Studio is a UI
design productivity tool for Microsoft Visual Studio
. It adds a new toolbox window that can associate initial property values with control items. It then applies these initial values to the control each time that control is drag and dropped onto the Form Designer. Designbox also includes the Design Gallery window that is used to apply pre-defined designs to existing controls.
Designbox currently supports .NET Windows Forms applications and works with all the major WinForms control suites from third-party vendors such as ComponentOne, Developer Express, Infragistics
, Telerik and Syncfusion.
User interface
The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
design productivity tool for Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all...
. It adds a new toolbox window that can associate initial property values with control items. It then applies these initial values to the control each time that control is drag and dropped onto the Form Designer. Designbox also includes the Design Gallery window that is used to apply pre-defined designs to existing controls.
Designbox currently supports .NET Windows Forms applications and works with all the major WinForms control suites from third-party vendors such as ComponentOne, Developer Express, Infragistics
Infragistics
Infragistics is a global software company that publishes user interface development tools and components for a range of developer applications, across all platforms...
, Telerik and Syncfusion.
Features
- The Designbox Window - A toolbox that stores property/value designs for control classes. Developers can then drag-and-drop these designs onto the WinForms Form Designer to create initialized controls.
- The Design Gallery - A Visual Studio tool window that allows developers to browse through and apply control designs.
- Design by Example - The ability to create designs from an existing control that exemplifies that design.
- WinForms to Xml Conversion - Designbox uses a custom WinForms to Xml translator that converts WinForms forms and controls to Xml.