Any sample metadata-based user interface code?

Question

I am developing a .net windows forms application that uses metadata to control the user interface. Besides the search for http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954610.aspx , I have nothing to wait for. Has anyone here worked on metadata-driven user interfaces? What are the implications of the following methodology and any pointers would be very helpful.

Answer 1

The most obvious answer is that Microsoft itself adopted this concept through the use of Xaml in the Windows Presentation Foundation , which replaces WinForms (by degree).

If you want to stick with WinForms, you might want to consider MyXaml , which is kind of a bit of respect for Xaml for WinForms

Answer 2

You might want to check out the Evolutility CRUD structure. This is an open source metadata driven environment for CRUD that generates the entire user interface at runtime.

Comes w / source code (in C # and JS) and many examples.

http://www.evolutility.org

Answer 3

You can try this with HTA. Once upon a time, I created a metadata-driven application using HTA and XML. I created a XAML structure and HTA-VBScript code to analyze this structure and display the various types of user interface elements along with the validations.

Answer 4

Check out the Andromeda project , which does this very widely. Too bad that the stack does not support .NET (PHP, Postgres, Perl).