How to build a form using a figma/mockup as my starting point?
I've been learning how to code in c# for about a month now and one of the ways I'm learning to do that is by building an application, which is a management app for a local clinic, however I started by designing the gui and such but I'm nt sure how to translate that into code, considering that I find the designer of visual studio quite difficult to use, any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Are you using Forms or WPF?
I used figma to create the mockups
but I want to "translate" that design into a functional screen for visual studio
not sure if that's possible somehow
also forms
windows forms app
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that's what I was afraid of
I'm also afraid of not finding the right one because so far the designs I've done with visual studio look terrible to say the least
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@JXvier if u want to build visual appealing applications then winforms is not the right way to go...
anything in winforms u need that is not there or does not exist in a library already... you will have to either create from scratch or modify the current control which may require, redrawing the entire control, among many other things since controls can be many layers deep which u would have to investigate to modify.
WPF or newer XAML based frameworks offers a much more intuitive way of doing that...
Uno platform for example have their own tool to convert figma to xaml and on top of that they have their own Hot Design u can use to mock the UI.
$uno
beyond that avalonia also have a very intuitive styling but anything that does not exist takes time to create for small modifications, coloring its trivial
it's more like a college project for a programming class, and it's intended to be used for a real "general" clinic, no specialization, for a local small community nothing grand
I see, unfortunately it was the only tool that we've been taught so far, which is why I'm unfamiliar with most of the tools C# offers
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ah no, it's just for a class
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nothing real is being stored in there
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so far we've only created the layers
that's about it
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exactly no
yes
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9 weeks from now approximately
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due Wednesday I only have to turn in a couple ot screens done that are connected to our mockup database and is able to handle insert, update and delete functions
it has to be better than this at the very least
I made these mock-ups but now I can see they're not really feasible with winforms
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is winform the only gui framework in c# you are permitted to use? if not then learn xaml based framework is much better
sometimes you need to be self-taught
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unfortunately winforms is the only tool we've been taught so far
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then dont focus on making it pretty just make it functional
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I learned that on my own
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yes, no problem
that's true
the way she taught us how to go about it is to program all the layers as we see fit, but for the UI layer, we first set up the buttons we're gonna use and then program the function of each button
I´ve been dealing with this for a couple of hours now
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