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CSS For Windows Controls

To be a productive web developer you have knowledge of many tools and technology.  For example, you need to know a programing language such as VB.NET and/or C#, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.  The nice thing about using CSS when developing your web applications is that you do not have to set the individual formatting properties for each control you work with.  This really isn't the case in WinForms development.  When developing a WinForms application you are forced to set the font, color, etc of the controls.  Wouldn't it be nice if you could apply a style sheet to your WinForms.  Just an idea.  I know some skinning solutions are available but most seem overly complex.  Anyway just an idea.

Published Friday, January 13, 2006 1:04 AM by dbottjer
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Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:51 PM by tbates

# re: CSS For Windows Controls

I did my best to restrain myself from reply to this blog post, but...

There are some vocabulary words you might want to familiarize yourself with. Such as: Visual Inheritance (or just Inheritance will do), Superclass/Parent, and subclass/child. I suppose something more basic would be better...like Object Oriented Programming!

The derived/child classes can reuse or extend properties of the base/parent class (for UI standardization, hey...like CSS). Several children can inherit from the base. These are not new concepts that I am discussing, but you seem to be missing the entire concept.
Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:08 PM by dbottjer

# re: CSS For Windows Controls

I am familar with thos terms and have used such techniques. I have also been using OO for quite some time. The point of this post was not to debate my understanding of OO but to explore CSS reuse. I guess you missed the point.
Sunday, January 15, 2006 10:36 PM by Jonathan Bates

# re: CSS For Windows Controls

If Vista ever gets wide, effective release then perhaps all this will be moot with XAML.
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