I saw in the "AutoMagic" that it uses reflection to create the Design of your form. Using reflection you can only customize properties. Your application will broken if your 'end-user' remove a component used in the sources.

It is a very limited customization way.

As you see in the Automato, I can add VWG controls, change properties and write c# code. If the 'end-user' remove components or do wrong things the application will not 'compile'.

Automato will have an option to compare projects to show the differents so you can merge the changes.

I'm creating Automato because I need a way to give the 'end-user' an option to complete customize my applications and/or create a new application from zero. My ERP System need it !

I will release the first version of Automato in january/2009.

Regards,
Alexnaldo Santos

Hi Orin Cohen,

Thanks. I think that nothing will be possible without VWG.

My intentions is to create a VWG IDE that implement DDD with the following elements:

Data, Forms, Actions, Menus, Reports, Resources and Code. (yes! you can create new elements)

I think that it can help many users.

As you can see in the posts, for each element I'm creating the "xml notation". At the moment, is not hard to create the "xml notation" for VWG Controls, so do not worry if seeing few VWG Controls/Properties in the IDE. It is temporary.

Regards,
Alexnaldo Santos