Questions tagged [designer]

a visualized UI creating tool (commonly windows forms creators)

Designers are used in various tasks.

Visual studio uses a designer engine to layout the user interface (buttons labels etc) for windows application, web sites and wpf applications.

Various designers exist for creating HTML and CSS, drawing building plans, connecting workflow items or building a city (think about the sims city games).

The designer tag on stackoverflow is mostly used to ask questions about the visual studio windows forms designer or windows workflow designer but also for various other UI designers (QT,Eclipse,Java).

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C#: System.ComponentModel.Design does not contain ArrayEditor

I'm working on making a complex object designer compliant and was going to utilize the ArrayEditor component... Needless to say, I don't have it... MSDN says it comes from .NET 1.1 which I most certainly do have and then some. Any ideas?
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How to sum values in Reporting Services via Visual Studio 2008 Expression Designer?

I have a report like this person | lead count | support count | ... p1 | 10 | 20 | ... p2 | 20 | 30 | ... I need to have sum of counts in one column. I've tried this…
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Locked Out Of WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2010

This is a really odd situation. I have an application with a number of user controls, and now for some reason when I go into the visual designer in Visual Studio and try to edit the control, I'm locked out, I can click on the control but nothing…
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Qt: How to go back and forth between the WYSIWYG editor and C++ code?

I'm a newbie to Qt. I'm using Qt Creator and a QT Widget Project. The QT widget project comes with a WYSIWYG editor, which I think is called Qt Designer, that seems great. But I want to be able to access the C++ code that governs all of the widgets…
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Receive error when trying to connect to mongo from iReport 4.5.1

I am trying to create a report using the mongo connector on iReport designer 4.5.1 (jasper). when i create the connection and test it, it says Test successful and gives me the database that i connected to in mongo. The issue happens when i try to…
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Possible to regenerate designer.cs file without Visual Studio?

I have few frequently changeable fields stored in Resources.resx which auto generates the file Resources.designer.cs. It has email addresses, location paths which are to be updated based on needs Now I would like to make the application usable even…
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Process Modeller with MVVM

I'm in the early phases of developing a WPF application (using the MVVM pattern) that will allow the user to create a flowchart for a process. The preliminary view looks as follows: The symbols in the left-hand pane are WPF Path objects. What…
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Web designer for simple reports

Users of my web app need to edit and "save as" their reports and then execute and export them to PDF or Excel files. I need to know if there is a designer (web) for simple reports (open source would be better). Reports are not complex: just data…
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Access the project file structure within the Visual Studio Properties property grid?

I'm making a Component that will be used in a VS drag and drop designer. One of the properties on this component needs to be the pack URI of a file within the project. I'd like to make things a little easy and, from within the property editor the…
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EXECUTE_QUERY on MASTER-DETAIL form queries wrong block

I'm using Oracle Form Designer with a Master-Detail relationship, I have a WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE trigger which runs 'EXECUTE_QUERY;' but it is returning records from the Detail block rather than the master block. Can anyone tell me how to return…
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LiveCycle Designer Form

I've got a LiveCycle Designer Form that I've linked to a SQL Server database, some of the functionalities I'v defineand are working well, however the same can't be said for the insert / update functionality, I've searched up and down the various…
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Resize border around control in custom DesignSurface

When I put control on my custom DesignSurface a 'resize border' is drawn. It's standard border well known from VS Designer - dotted with eight 'anchors' to resize control. Unlucky when I change control's size or location programmatically this border…
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How can I create a control with IPAddress properties that can be edited in the designer?

I'm creating a control with properties of type System.Net.IPAddress. The designer shows these as read-only, and seems to be matching them up with resources. Is there a way to make it so that the user can edit these properties in the designer…
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Free Web Layout Designer?

I'm wondering if anyone out there knows of a free Web Layout Designer that I could use to play around with the layouts of forms, tables, etc. etc. I'm thinking more along the lines of Visio style and less like Dreamweaver designer. Something more…
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Visual Studio WinForm Designer not working after .Net Framework migration to .Net Core

Hello StackOverFlow residents, We migrated our giant enterprise project from .Net Framework -> .Net Core 6. The Xaml WCF Designer works just fine, while the WinForm and old Report designers are not working. What steps should I…
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