I would like to know which is the best design pattern I can use here and why?

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I need to design a winform application for personal data management.

It has 10 winform forms starting from login form to Permanent address dialog, Temporary address dialog, Vehicle details dialog1, Vehicle details dialog2, Travel expence dialog, Misc expence dialog etc.

So from each dialog window i am giving provision to go 'Back' and 'Next' navigation.

Each dialog contains almost 10 to 15 fields.

I would like to know which is the best design pattern i can use here and why?

What I have tried:

What i have tried is whenever user navigate, current form i am saving as a blob and in the initialize function of the each dialog i am populating the fields by reading the respective blob.

Posted 19-Oct-16 21:11pm

code4Better

Updated 20-Oct-16 0:10am

Richard MacCutchan

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Your idea sounds like you are a beginner - why not give some time in understanding different patterns first - best is to go with the trend because you will find more examples - so in your case I would guess data-binding and updating is the important thing. So I'd use a MVVM pattern The MVVM Pattern[^] and WPF as Client Technology, maybe a UniversalApp? You will find tons of samples for these techs: GitHub - Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples: API samples for the Universal Windows Platform.[^]
or
https://github.com/Microsoft/WPF-Samples

Posted 19-Oct-16 23:26pm

johannesnestler

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code4Better 20-Oct-16 6:34am

Johan, Thanks for your response. Mine is a winform application not WPF

johannesnestler 20-Oct-16 6:46am

pattern is can be the same for winforms - just a little more work to implement... I like to use it, because undo-/redo can be centralized quite easy. but have a look what CPallini recommendet...

code4Better 20-Oct-16 6:56am

Sure Johan, Thanks

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CPallini · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-20T00:10:00

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I think your approach resembles the Memento[^] design pattern and, in my opinoin, is correct.

Posted 20-Oct-16 0:10am

CPallini

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code4Better 20-Oct-16 7:00am

Thanks much Pallani.

CPallini 20-Oct-16 8:06am

You are welcome.