Implementing Interoperability Between Embedded .NET WinForms and Your Existing Synergy/DE UI Toolkit Logic

By Richard Morris, Senior Consultant, Synergy/DE Professional Services Group

When the Synergy .NET assembly API and the UI Toolkit .NET routines were released in Synergy/DE 9.1.5 (July 2008), developers were given the ability to harness the powerful controls and classes within the .NET Framework. With these features, you can enhance the presentation layer of your application by replacing your UI Toolkit input windows with Windows Forms, which offer a greater array of input controls than standard input windows.

This article describes the first steps towards replacing your UI Toolkit input windows with Windows Forms. We’ll use this past year’s SPC demo application, ChronoTrack, to illustrate how to start migrating an existing UI Toolkit application to .NET. ChronoTrack is a UI Toolkit application whose user interface has been enhanced using .NET forms. It was created by the Synergex Professional Services Group (PSG) to demonstrate the capabilities of the latest released versions of Synergy/DE, and it uses many of the modern tools and technologies now available to the Synergy developer.

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