tips for dynamic UI creation

I need to create a UI 开发者_JAVA百科that will load from an xml file information that will determine the look of the UI. Simply put, the xml file will determine the locations of a bunch of buttons in a grid like interface. Im thinking that it could be built with a single Panel container with a variable number (depending on the info given in the xml file) of table layout panels. Each table layout panel will have a variable number of rows/columns (also dependant on the info given in the xml file).

I have the creation and mapping of controls working fine, however proper sizing of everything continues to be a challenge.

Are there other controls out there better suited for mapping out dynamic interfaces?

Any tips/tricks/pitfalls?

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Use WPF (as mentioned) or use Gtk# (see website)

Also, a wellknown trick with Winforms is to make ample use of datagrids bound to Datatables (or DataSets in general). Even if your backend isn't actually a ADO.Net provider you can dynamically create DataTables (adding columns with proper datatypes). The datagrid will know how to make these columns editable/sortable etc.

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