I think I understand namespaces, but I'm trying to prevent myself from going down a blind alley, so bear with me.
I have one application that I'm building as a simple framework for presenting other applications.
The framework consists of a form for displaying menus and a panel for displaying the requested form.
The menus are based on xml files and look like this:
Application Function1 Function2 Function3 Function4
When the user selects an application off of the Application list, the Function menus will change to reflect what that application can do.
Each Function menu has a list of items that will either display applications form in the panel or open a modal dialog box.
My objective here is to have one application (the framework) which I only have to write once to manage the look and feel.
Each application will have it's own namespace within the framework and get called from within the framework but the code for the application would reside in it's own project to keep development a little less complicated.
So my question is if I want to add a new sub application is it possible to add a new namespace without recompiling the namespace or can I do it from a init file or some other method?
The idea is that adding a new sub app would be as easy as adding a path to the main executable and a new xml menu to make it available to the framework users.
If this isn't practical or doable, it'd be nice to know before I chase my tail.
I have one application that I'm building as a simple framework for presenting other applications.
The framework consists of a form for displaying menus and a panel for displaying the requested form.
The menus are based on xml files and look like this:
Application Function1 Function2 Function3 Function4
When the user selects an application off of the Application list, the Function menus will change to reflect what that application can do.
Each Function menu has a list of items that will either display applications form in the panel or open a modal dialog box.
My objective here is to have one application (the framework) which I only have to write once to manage the look and feel.
Each application will have it's own namespace within the framework and get called from within the framework but the code for the application would reside in it's own project to keep development a little less complicated.
So my question is if I want to add a new sub application is it possible to add a new namespace without recompiling the namespace or can I do it from a init file or some other method?
The idea is that adding a new sub app would be as easy as adding a path to the main executable and a new xml menu to make it available to the framework users.
If this isn't practical or doable, it'd be nice to know before I chase my tail.