Specialised styling of a windows form

[dporter]

Hi,

I have recently been shown a screen design for an application that will
be created using windows forms in VB.NET.

http://img70.imageshack.us/my.php?image=001c1ym.jpg

It looks very stylized, and I wondered if this was possible using
windows forms, or whether there are any customised components out there
that will do this.

From looking at the .NET UI components available on the web, I have not

found anything remotely like this.

Also wondering what kind of time/effort/cost it would take to create
something like this.

Notes:

- At the top we have different tabs (Inspire, Accelerate, etc) which
will change the view of the grid(?) below.

- Under the tabs we have what appears to be a grid, or at least some
kind of styled up user interface. These items are clickable, and will
pop separate forms. This grid needs to be generated dynamically,
dependent on data passed in from an XML file.

- On the right hand side we have a list, which can be broken out. This
is also dynamically generated, from the same XML file as above. This
list can also pop forms.


Any advice would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Dave

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Of course it's possible. You would need to create some custom controls to do
it. As to how long it would take, that depends on the quality of your
developer(s).

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Kevin Spencer
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