Create Visio Like Project

[jennyb]

I have been given a new project for the company I am consulting for in which I need to create a very basic mock up program to present for approval. I need to do this in .NET and unfortunately I am not very familiar. Once approved, I will be sent to training but I'm having trouble getting started. Here is a basic description of the project and if anyone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated! (please note, I have been on line researching and came up with some ideas but until I get some basics, this is becoming very frustrating, I do know VB and have learned Java and XML, I just don't know enough about .net to get started)

 

In it's most basic form I need to do this:

 

Give users the ability to drag and drop visio like objects onto a form (basic shapes and connector lines)

 

Once the map is drawn out, users would click on a 'highlighter' and choose a path from their map

 

Once the path is chosen, they would click a button that would create an XML doc with the appropriate data

 

Basically, i just need to show that I can do the drag and drop (which I looked into, but can't figure out how to have the objects copied instead of just moved), create the path and then the XML. I have read up on the XML and know this is possible and that I can figure it out, I just need to know how to 'grab' the data.

 

Thanks so much in advance

[mskeel]

This article outlines the visio active-X control in pretty good detail and even has a tutorial project you an walk through. I think, but I am not certian, that you can get a lot of the drag and drop functionality for free with the active-x control. That is also where I would look for the highlighting abilities and the ability to grab data so you can write it out in the format you want.

 

Hope that helps. And let me know how it goes. I've always wanted to mess around with .Net and Visio.

[jennyb]

This article outlines the visio active-X control in pretty good detail and even has a tutorial project you an walk through. I think, but I am not certian, that you can get a lot of the drag and drop functionality for free with the active-x control. That is also where I would look for the highlighting abilities and the ability to grab data so you can write it out in the format you want.

 

Hope that helps. And let me know how it goes. I've always wanted to mess around with .Net and Visio.

 

Thanks so much, I'm getting right on this, I have looked into the Visio active-x-control a little, i'm just hoping it can do what i need it to. I will definitely let you know how it goes, if this gets approved it's going to turn into a huge project.