[SOLVED] Using third party or unsupported WinForm controls

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I just wanted to confirm this:
-First, In order to use 3rd Party WinForm controls/UI, I will need the source not just assembly dll; they’ll first need to be successfully migrated/converted by recompiling with Wisej.Web.Form…
-Second, If project is using unsupported controls e.g. RichTextBox, etc. the conversion will not work…

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Hi John,

You can’t use WinForms controls in Wisej. If you have a third party control with  the source code it makes it a bit easier to recreate the control using Wisej, but most of the code from the WinForms control cannot be used since it’s most likely based on Win32 SDK (messages, painting, etc.). Wisej control don’t do any drawing and don’t use any Win32 SDK at all. They are all server components that render their UI through JSON properties sent to the client. The client side uses the JSON map to create the corresponding JavaScript widget. C#/VB.NET on the server and JavaScript on the client, communicating using JSON. Doesn’t get cleaner that this. 🙂

If you have a control that  is not currently supported and there is no equivalent, you need to build something that can replace it. With Wisej it’s easy, but it still can be a lot of work.

Take the RichTextBox control, for example, it’s easy to extend TextBoxArea and map a good portion of the properties and methods. On the client side you’d have to use an HTML editor and on  the server side you’d need an RTF to/from HTML converter. We left this out because it would have been time consuming at this stage with little benefit. We will instead upload two HTML editors to the Extensions page: TinyEditor and TinyMCE. They don’t support RTF but support HTML.

Best,

Luca

  • ramin rad
    I have the same problem, however, i have access to the source code and have replaced all winforms with Wisej. I’m currently running a demo version to see if I can convert our geospatial mapping software into a web based software that uses a lot of custom graphics(e.g planviews, 3dviews, etc). It seems that there is something wrong with the painting messages as all I get is an empty white screen. I’m purely a c# guy so don’t know much about web programming hence decided to use wisej but it seems not to be working or too hard as I’m stuck with the simplest migration task here….
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