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[Ritchie Annand <wakarimasen@xxxxxxx>]

Wait, WinForms? :)

What sort of configuration abilities are you looking for? Are you thinking more about a hierarchy of properties (akin to an XML file) or something a little more process-oriented (tasks/wizards)?

If you're looking to have it like an XML sort of hierarchy, do the nodes need to be unique? Just asking, because I put together a Configuration framework piece a while back (no UI) and one of the issues was that if you wanted to support database or registry, then you had to avoid XML's ability to have multiple nodes of the same name.

A mildly generic snap-in sounds like fun.

What would the JavaScript be used for?

--=- Ritchie

----- Original Message -----
From: Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010 11:45 am
Subject: [Coapp-developers] Idea: Providing a generic user interface for configuring applications
To: "coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> (this may be something we'll look at a few months down the road)
> 
> CoApp conformant packages are can not interact with the user at 
> install time.
> 
> However, after installation, a user will want to configure an 
> application, and perhaps there should be a simplified method to 
> building a common User Interface for configuring them, rather 
> than relying on users to edit text files manually, or play 
> around registry keys, etc.
> 
> And, now that I think about it, it would help with remote 
> administration if it all hooked up like a mmc snapin.
> 
> It appears that MMC 3.0 supports a .NET Winforms model for 
> building snapins. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/ms692744%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
> I've got a really cool idea percolating in my head... kindof a 
> mildly generic snapin that can expose simple configuration 
> concepts via an xml file (+Javascript?) so that app publishers 
> can leverage a very consistent UI for configuring everything.
> 
> Plus, this makes it all easy to remotely configure CoApp-
> installed applications on remote machines.
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