form.suite4.net is a graphical user interface designer for Microsoft .NET Windows Forms. It is a stand-alone tool that does not require Visual Studio .NET to be installed on the user's computer but seemlessly works together with it if the need should arise.
The tool offers the possibility to bind business classes to forms, thereby speeding up the form creation process. Tedious activities such as logically naming controls are simplified through an intelligent algorithm. Once a format has been applied to a specific control it can be copied and transferred to any selected control. Even global formatting templates that work similar to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on the web can be employed. This makes matching an application’s presentation layer to the corporate design of a company a swift operation.
In order to optimize the work-flow of configuring controls the program provides specific editors for recurring tasks such as setting TabIndex and limiting the scope of user input values.
form.suite4.net allows for smooth import of existing Visual Studio .NET projects. Once the design process is complete, the required VB.NET or C# code is generated or exported to a Visual Studio .NET project. The format of the generated code can be highly customized and existing code in Visual Studio will never be overwritten. You can even convert a Windows Forms project to an ASP.NET project, retaining most of the visual properties in the process.
This user manual is divided in several distinct sections that correspond to the main program elements.
Additional help can be found on the web at http://www.suite4.net, where you have access to instructional videos and a support forum.
Please send feedback about the program and its documentation to info@suite4.net.