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Visual c# form design - Best practices
I have a windows forms application (microsoft visual c# 2005) that accesses mysql database to display, enter or modify data. The main form has the menu on the left side where the user selects from a list of choices. When a user makes a selection, info (text boxes, etc) is displayed on the right side. The question is: what is the proper container to use for the right side? I am currently using custom controls for each of the menu options. Is there a better way to implement this? What are you all using in such situations? Any Advice?
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I did not mention that my application is not asp based.
Is asp Panel indicative for a windows desktop application? Setting the panels to invisible, system resources won't be released which will result in poor performance as the number of panels increases. How do I design my panels at design time? Recall that each panel will have a number of other controls (dataGridView, textboxes, buttons, tab controls, binding navigators, etc).
Regarding the other option, use of split container, I am using split container. The question is what container I need to use for the right panel of the split container(panel 2) to place my controls on? There will be more than one such containers (as many as the menu options) and how these containers will show and hide based on the menu selection? I am currently using custom controls that are created and loaded dynamically based on the menu selection.
Any more ideas?