Having just started some work in Infopath after doing a lot of work with .Net Winforms I find manipulating the design of my form a very frustrating experience.
Is there a method, option or addon to have my controls 'snap' into alignment like they do with Visual Studio and some other products?
As a commenter said - not really. Infopath is a fancy front end for HTML/XML/XSLT so it is more free form than the dev tools you are used to working with. You can tweak layout at a pixel level but as far as alignment your best option is multiple selection and setting location/dimensions manually.
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I'm currently using Xamarin Studio and have a comfortable enough setup so that I can put my various pads (output, unit tests, solution tree, etc.) on different screens. I like it and I'd like it to stay the same wether I'm debugging, running tests or coding.
But right now, xamarin studio handles it himself and switches to the Debug view layout when debugging, which changes everything to their default (since I've never really changed it).
Is it possible to tell Xamarin Studio to either :
- Never switch layouts?
- Set which layout is used for each situation (and I would just use my custom layout)
I've tried deleting all layouts and XS just recreates them. No dice here.
I've tried switching to my layout when debugging, hoping it would remember "this is my debug layout now". No chance either.
And I'm hoping I won't have to change each separate layout, because first it'll take a stupid amount of time, and also because if I ever decide to make a change, i'd have to set it up over 5 different view layouts which is just ridiculous.
Note : I'm using the latest version of Xamarin of the stable channel.
So, does anyone know a way to keep one single layout for all situations?
Unfortunately, no, it is not possible with the current version of Xamarin Studio.
I read through both the preferences as well as the documentation. I even tried to create my own custom layout by navigating to "View" -> "Save Current Layout". Then I selected my new custom layout when I started a debugging session, hoping it would persist to the next one. But alas, the "Debug" view was chosen automatically.
This would probably be something you could bring forth as a suggestion of improvement to the Xamarin team. You can do so using their bugzilla.
I want to create a desktop mockup on Elementary OS 0.2. By "mockup" I mean something that shows off the aesthetic of the mockup, mostly just showing what selecting/clicking/hovering over a button or widget does to that particular part of the UI. I'm thinking about creating the various parts on GIMP and coding animation and transition logic into the final result. I know that something like this can be done in HTML/JS, but I want to avoid using those. Is there anything optimized for a project like this? I'm open to most languages.
Try WireframeSketcher wireframing tool. Unlike Gimp or PowerPoint, WireframeSketcher is designed specifically to help you create mockups and wireframes. It comes pre-packaged for Debian systems and can also be found in Software Center and so it works on Elementary OS too. Note that it's a commercial tool, but you can try it freely for 14 days.
Most PMs at large companies mock these things up using a presentation package like PowerPoint. If you know the routine and where to click it can look fantastic with minimal effort.
MockupUI does both wireframe and Windows native looking mockups. It uses your desktop's visual style which makes screens and widgets look as a standard Windows application. MockupUI lets you export screens as individual images, docx, pdf or html.
Actions/interactions can be explained by highlighting widgets and adding text annotations.
I work in VS2012 and would like to organize the order of members in a class by drag-and-drop, like I can in Eclipse.
However, the members outline in a right-top of the screen and also in a class view or in solution explorer do not give such an option.
Is there a way to do it?
Code Maid is a free Visual Studio extension that adds a digging window tool.
This will answer to your needs, I believe.
This tool also allow you to reorder code elements with drag & drop directly within this window.
I Googled and searched here for the solution, the only thing I've found it to override the text and edit it manually - however this will be changed as soon as you make a change to the object.
I'd like to hide the "in" direction indicator for method parameters - anyone know if it's possible to do this and if so, how?
After doing some research, here's what I found:
There is no GUI option to toggle the visibility of the direction indicator
A workaround would be to create a new master (copying the original class master), and tweak it to change the display of Operations shape.
However, there is no option in the Shapesheet window to do that.
The next thing to try would be manipulate it via code.
After fiddling around, I couldn't find any public properties that allowed you to set that.
I stumbled upon this technet forum post which confirmed my suspicion (that the UML addon lacked a good set of APIs).
So I guess the short answer is - No. There is no automatic way of doing that in Visio 2007/2010.
There are other tools that let you control this, such as:
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect (Class Diagrams)
IBM's Rational Software Architect (Showing or hiding parameters)
If you can switch tools, I would recommend Enterprise Architect. It has allows C# code generation (not sure about IBM) and has Visual Studio integration as well.
Hope ths helps!
I'm interested on how to get the old menus back for Office 2007. I know you can buy add-ins that do this, but I'm more interested on how these are done? I want to implement this at home and just need to be pointed in the correct direction!
Thanks!
These programs don't actually restore the old menu system, they modify the current Ribbon and then write the code to mock the old design.
This is where you need to start in order to modify the Ribbon.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa942866%28VS.80%29.aspx
I doubt the Ribbon is going to go away, so you probably will be better off taking the time to get used to it. I have, and now I much prefer this style menu system. In fact, I have been looking at code to implement this style in applications that I build.