How Can I save a form that dynamically as form1.vb

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Hi all!, I am srinivas, here i want to develop an application that allows user to design his/ her own screens.

For this, I am following this procedure

1. I created a tool box with some tools (label, button, textboxes, line etc..)
2. i have a new form (this form has to save with a name and with an extension .vb),
And can add some controls to the form using tools in my tool box.
3. And i am adding some event handler to these controls.
4. Now i want to save the form with controls on it. (same as we create a form and add controls to
it manually using visual studio)

Now my question is, can i do this using vb.net or not, if yes, how?.
Please help me i am stuck at this for no. of weeks,

I don't know whether i clearly explained what my problem was, if any one cant understand please let me know by commenting on this, or on my email ID : srinivas.0386@gmail.com

Thankyou

Posted 19-Jan-14 18:08pm

SrinivasEng

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-14 0:36am

The question does not make any sense without seeing our code. It all depends on how you designed it. The problem is not clear. You can always generate some code based on data, why not?
—SA

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2014-01-20T00:03:00

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You could serialize the controls of the form. This Code Project article (I know it is C#) could point you in the right direction: "Saving the state (serializing) a Windows Form"[^].

Posted 20-Jan-14 0:03am

CPallini

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SrinivasEng 21-Jan-14 1:03am

@CPallini:
Yeah, I tried Serialization also, i could do the serialize the properties of the controls.
But couldn't do the serialization for event handling for the particular controls

CPallini 21-Jan-14 3:20am

I think you could serialize even code. However, interacting with CodeDom is, to my knowledge, fairly complex.

SrinivasEng 23-Jan-14 23:17pm

When I try to serialize, it is saving the properties of controls like name, text, location, size.
But i don't know to how to serialize the code, can you help me on this.

Aravindba · Answer 2 · 2014-01-19T22:08:00

Hai
first u create a dummy form,tool box for controls,main Save button,Clear button on main form,in that allow to drag and drop controls,after finish design ,if user click save button based on user id u have to save location,size of controls in database(i.e. x axis ,y axis ,size)for this u have to limit controls so only can handle this.after user saved his/her design,if user login,based on user id u have retrieve details of controls and load in dummy forms.like this u do.

Regards
AravindB