Runtime Form Designer Suite:

version 2.80 for .NET 2.0 or later, September 21, 2010 (Visual Studio 2005 or later)

Form Designer .NET allows you move and resize any control on your .NET application form at runtime. You need not prepare your form to use Form Designer .NET. Just drop Form Designer .NET control onto any form, assign the DesignedForm property, set Active property to true and enjoy!

After activation of Form Designer .NET you can select, move and resize any control in your form by keys or mouse. Form with activated Form Designer .NET looks exactly like Microsoft .NET designer in Visual Studio or Delphi.

You need only one line of code to make the form editable by our Form Designer .NET:

designer1.Active = true;

As you can see it's very simple. You can use our Toolbox component and the example of PropertyWindows using to create your own form editor.

Last version of Form Designer Suite has new "framework" mode which can be used after assigning any container control to the new DesignContainer property.

To install Form Designer .NET demo kit just extract the downloaded archive and run the appropriate MSI file. The installer will copy the files into the "Program filesGreatisFD.Net" folder.

To use the installed Designer component just follow these steps:

Visual Studio:

1. Choose the "View | Toolbox" in the main menu
2. Click right mouse button on the toolbox and choose the "Add/Remove Items..."
3. Press the "Browse" button
4. Browse for "Program FilesGreatisFD.Net" folder and select Greatis.FormDesigner.dll file
5. Press the "OK" buttons to finish the install process

Delphi:

1. Choose the "Components | Installed .NET Components..." from the main menu
2. Select the ".NET Components" tab
3. Press the "Select an Assembly..." button
4. Browse for "Program FilesGreatisFD.Net" folder and select Greatis.FormDesigner.dll file
5. Press the "OK" button to finish the install process

After it you'll see the Designer component in the Toolbox / Tool Palette.

Features:

· Full source codes!
· Non visual component support
· .NET 2.0 support
· Version for Visual Studio 2003, Delphi 8, Delphi 2005 and Delphi 2006 is included
· Native .NET solution
· UseSnapLines property
· Full nested containers support
· Multi-selection
· Saving and loading form to/from file
· Saving and loading form to/from XML
· Clipboard operations
· Toolbox Component
· Any windowed control can be used as a design surface after assigning to the DesignedForm property instead of a form
· Loading and storing using XML format
· Clipboard functions
· 3rd party components support
· Popup menu verbs
· KeyDown and KeyUp events
· Undo and Redo
· New separated Form Treasury component contained all storing and loading features
· FilterAttributes, FilterEvents, FilterProperties events
· AllowDesign event
· Multiple designers feature (AddDesigner in ToolboxControl)
· MouseUp and MouseDown events
· Full-functional form editor as free demo