问题:

I am in the process of designing a .net windows forms application that uses metadata to drive the UI. Apart from finding http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954610.aspx, I have nothing much to look forward to. Anyone here worked on metadata driven User interfaces? What are the implications of following this methodology and any pointers would be greatly helpful.

回答1:

The most obvious answer would be that Microsoft have themselves embraced this concept through their use of Xaml in Windows Presentation Foundation which replaces WinForms (to an extent).

If you want to stick to a WinForms, you may want to consider MyXaml which is kind of a homage to Xaml for WinForms!

回答2:

You may want to check out Evolutility CRUD framework. It is an open source metadata driven framework for CRUD generating all UI at run-time.

It comes w/ source code (in C# and JS) and many samples.

http://www.evolutility.org

回答3:

You may try this with HTA. Sometime back I created a metadata driven application using HTA and XML. I created XAML like structure and HTA-VBScript code to parse this structure and render diffent types of UI elements along with validations.