forms design?

[Bonj]

What's the best way of designing forms for use with C# using only the SDK,
not the IDE?
I.e. the layout of the controls.
You have to manuallly type in the file, or is there a 3rd-party editor?

 

[Philip Rieck]

A "3rd-party editor" would most likely be an IDE --
If you're just looking for free (as opposed to paying for VS.NET), you can
try #develop:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

 

[Guest]

If there are free IDEs, why would you pay for Microsoft's?
I can *just* understand why you would pay for it for C++, to get the wizards that create MFC and ATL projects and such like. You might also want the optimizing compiler. But would you really pay over a grand for those things? It's not as if there aren't free optimizing compilers.
What I've found is that, using free stuff only you can:
* debug, with /debug and Windbg and ClrDBG (with .pdb files)
* compile C++ code with optimization (albeit with non-microsoft tools)
* and now apparently it seems, design windows forms for C# (and VB)!

surely people don't spend a grand just to have
* Microsoft's optimizing compiler as opposed to another optimizer
* the convenience of all the wizards MS provides

 

[Guest]

That's probably what I'm after, thanks

 

[Bonj]

so GNU *do* know the *meaning* of the term 'window' !!!

 

[Bonj]

ok, let's begin the huge database creation process then! hope i see
something for it!

the program looks pretty impressive though

(by xmas'd be nice though...)