Dynamic winForm Generator

Hi Arsalan, here is an interesting thought that I once wanted to implement but unfortunately never had the time for.
So the idea I had was to generate the FlowDocument object, which would define a form, at runtime. But instead of creating some sort of a Toolbox that user would need to learn how to use I was thinking of allowing users to create a Word document with the required form fields, text formatting, layout, etc. and then he would load that document into an application which would convert it to a FlowDocument object.
For starters I can recommend you this great article that shows how to convert DOCX to WPF's FlowDocument, note that it is just a starting point because that article is missing support for reading form fields from DOCX so you need to add that.
Nevertheless if interested in this let me know and I will provide you all that I remember about this idea.

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Selva Ganapathy11y ago
Hi Arsalan,
Are you trying to do this in WPF or WinForms?
Regards,
Selva Ganapathy K
Candy Brown11y ago
Hi Arsalan, here is an interesting thought that I once wanted to implement but unfortunately never had the time for.
So the idea I had was to generate the FlowDocument object, which would define a form, at runtime. But instead of creating some sort of a Toolbox that user would need to learn how to use I was thinking of allowing users to create a Word document with the required form fields, text formatting, layout, etc. and then he would load that document into an application which would convert it to a FlowDocument object.
For starters I can recommend you this great article that shows how to convert DOCX to WPF's FlowDocument, note that it is just a starting point because that article is missing support for reading form fields from DOCX so you need to add that.
Nevertheless if interested in this let me know and I will provide you all that I remember about this idea.