PocketNerd WizardEngine

The PocketNerd Wizard Engine (Pwiz Engine) provides a powerful, simple, and consistent way to create Windows Forms based Wizards that can be launched as a modal or non-modal dialog from within your own Application, as a standalone executable that runs in its own process and as a Custom Wizard from within the Visual Studio.NET IDE.

This article describes how the Pwiz Engine works and how to create such Wizards.

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C# Custom Wizards

This is the final article in the series that looks at how more programming power can be introduced into our VS.NET Wizards by creating a C# Custom Wizard

Article 1: VS.NET Wizard Overview
Article 2: Custom HTML Wizards
Article 3: C# Custom Wizards


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IDTWizard.Execute's ContextParams

Sample code that shows how to make sense of the IDTWizard.Execute's ContextParams argument when creating a Custom Wizard

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System Tray Application Wizard

This C# Wizard can be used to quickly create a new Windows Application that interacts with a System Tray icon

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.NET - COM Object Wizard

This C# Wizard creates a new .NET project and class that implements several best practices in exposing a COM object to a Win32 application. This is particularly useful for Excel and other Office .NET development activities

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Custom HTML Wizards

This article builds on the previous VS.NET Wizard Overview to show you how to create and deploy custom HTML Wizards. In particular, the article describes creating a C#-COM Class that can be used to perform Excel Integration.

Even if you are not interested in the Wizards, the COM Wizard installer may prove useful so why not download and install it!

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VS.NET Wizard Overview

Wizards are probably one of the most widely used tools within the Visual Studio.NET IDE. This article goes into detail to explain how VS.NET wizards work as a pre-cursor to future articles that look at how to create custom Wizards and extend the Wizard Framework.

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