Tony Vandiver wrote:

> Can you tell me a little more about the specific GUI tools available
> with C#.  I've recently started using MSVS C#, and so far found it
> fairly refreshing having struggled with MFC for years (although I
> still have to find a reference when converting from unsigned char to
> byte or char[] to string, etc.), but I'm really only familiar with
> the baseline GUI objects like buttons and edit boxes.  Are you
> talking about new add-in toolbox classes?

I don't do a whole lot GUI development these years, but the little I've
done over the last few years on Windows, I just found the Visual Studio
C# environment much easier to work with than their C++ environment. I'm
much more proficient with C++ than with C#, but it's much easier for me
to bring up a GUI in C# than in VC++. This is not so much about new
add-ins but about the integration of the GUI with the code. This seems
to be much more straightforward.

Also, I'm sure (which basically means "I don't know" :) that there are
many more 3rd party (free and paid-for) add-ins for C# GUI development
than for C++. 

Sorry to be of not much help here, but this is not an area where I have
extensive recent experience. 

Just one thing: if you use multi-threaded comms, keep an eye on
multithreaded access to GUI components. This doesn't work well, leads to
odd failures and needs to be synchronized.

Gerhard
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