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I am going now to develop my new design for my program it is a long term project we Finished all it's documentation and now we have all documentation but i am now going to Design the windows Forms but i want which tool i should use to draw the imagined Forms before i am going to code the forms
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Personally I start off by drawing a rough sketch of all the forms on a piece of paper. The I would start a new project in your preferred IDE and actually start the design. I know that in some instances you would not be able to draw the form due to controls being created and displayed at runtime, however you could still create them for design purposes. When ready, you can just take screen shots of the program while it is actually running. It is important that you don't include any code. Just the user interface. If you cannot produce a particular screen, you can always use an image editor to modify the screen shot and produce whatever form you would like. You don't need to be a professional designer, even with the use of Microsoft Paint you could easily perform such editing.

Hope this helps.
 
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Yasser El Shazly 8-Mar-11 9:42am    
what do you mean by IDE..?
Ryan Zahra 8-Mar-11 9:44am    
IDE examples:
Visual Studio for C# and VB.Net
Eclipse and Net Beans for Java
Yasser El Shazly 8-Mar-11 11:20am    
You mean I draw Them in Any IDE and then take Screen shoots for these forms and edit them..?
Ryan Zahra 8-Mar-11 11:21am    
Preferably you use the IDE in which you will be developing your project. This way, you would find them ready when you start coding.
Have a look at here

http://speckyboy.com/2010/01/11/10-completely-free-wireframe-and-mockup-applications/[^]

Can use this to draw any form whether web or windows.
 
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