karenpayneoregon / dynamic-buttons-windows

Shows how to create dynamic buttons via SQL-Server for Windows Forms

Dynamic buttons

Code sample that creates one button for each category from NorthWind database table. Click a category button to get products for that category.

Screen shot

There are several images for buttons in the project resources.

Schema

Requires

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 or higher
• NET 8

Data Operations

Dapper

Logging

SeriLog

Custom button

Identifier property is used to store category identifier rather than using the tag propery.

public class DataButton : Button
{
    [Category("Behavior"), Description("Identifier")]
    public int Identifier { get; set; }
    [Category("Behavior"), Description("Stash")]
    public string Stash { get; set; }
}