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VS Winforms Designer inside your Application


This is not Visual Studio nor #Develop nor any other known IDE.. it's just a sample code from MSDN Magazine

Ever wanted to host Visual Studio Designer in your application? to give your user the ability to redesign forms or even create new forms ?

All you need is .NET framework installed (if you want to also compile the newly generated forms, you will need .NET SDK too -it's free :)- )

Surprisely, VS is not doing anything more than just "using" what is already there in the .NET framework winforms to enable users to design forms (drag, move, group, align,... etc).

There is a sample that was published once in MSDN Magazine, you can download it here

And an article published in this issue in "The Perfect Host" column..

Enjoy :)
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