Kajabity.DocForms GitHub Repository

Kajabity.DocForms is a collection of WinForms classes to provide all those standard 'Boiler Plate' file handling features of a Windows Desktop application. These classes have been refactored from applications I've written over recent years and I am find I use them regularly for quickly putting together new applications.

This repository contains several sub-projects:

• Kajabity.DocForms - a DLL project providing a collection of utilities for .NET projects.
• Kajabity.DocForms.Test - a suite of NUnit tests for Kajabity.DocForms.
• Samples - a collection of sample Desktop application projects illustrating the use of some of Kajabity.DocForms utility classes, as well as other NuGets I have published.

See the Releases section on GitHub to download copies of code, DLL exe's and NuGets.

Kajabity.DocForms DLL is a strongly named assembly and is available from nuget.org as Kajabity.DocForms.

This code originally formed part of the Kajabity Tools library.
Full documentation is available at http://www.kajabity.com/kajabity-tools/.

Features

• SingleDocumentForm is an extension of System.Windows.Forms.Form providing standard file handling functionality linked to a document type.
• Document extend this abstract base class to represent each file (document) type.
• SingleDocumentManager abstract base class to extend to implement Load/Save/New document functionality.

File handling:

• Open file
• New File
  • Set default filename and extension
• Save File, Save File as
  • Backup original file on Save
• Close file
• Open recent file
  • Configurable number of recent files and display length
• Exit application

In addition, these features easily support:

• Standard file handling menu items and tool strip items.
• Drag and drop files onto application.