[RESOLVED] Development for Windows and Web Forms

[sagoga69]

Hello everybody,

We have to develop an ERP using Windows forms in Visual Basic and Web forms for desktop computers and mobile devices. All the forms, obviously, have to be in those three "different formats", and have to have a similar appearance, or at least, the same controls, etc.

We are noobs in .NET development, and we don't know whether there is a tool or a tecnique we can use to achieve our aim, without doing every form from scratch.

Sorry if this is not the correct forum to post this.

Thanks in advance.

[jmcilhinney]

I'm not 100% sure but I believe that under Windows presentation Foundation (WPF) the Web and Windows UI are far more unified. You'd still have to use a different container for Web and Windows but the content would be much more similar.

If you can't use .NET 3.x then you just have to create two different UIs, plain and simple. That said, Web controls and Windows controls will still have a similar look and feel, e.g. a Web Button and a Windows Button look the same, they are just two different controls. In that case you'd need to try extra hard to keep everything that wasn't strictly related to presentation out of the UI, so you could use the same business logic DLL(s) under both interfaces.

[sagoga69]

Thanks a lot for your help, jmcilhinney. I'll try to separate as much as posible the presentation layer.