--- title: "Creating Doc-Centric Apps in WinForms, part 1 of 3" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/29/creating-doc-centric-apps-in-winforms-part-1-of-3.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/29/creating-doc-centric-apps-in-winforms-part-1-of-3.html" published: "2003-09-29T20:16:00" updated: "2003-09-29T20:16:00" tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Articles"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Chris Chris Sells wrote a 3 -part series titled “ Creating Doc-Centric Apps in WinForms “: This 3-part series really belonged as a chapter in my WinForms book, but after doubling the estimated size of the book (not to…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Creating Doc-Centric Apps in WinForms, part 1 of 3 By Roy Osherove September 29, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles) **Historical article** · Originally published September 29, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Chris Chris Sells wrote a 3 -part series titled “Creating Doc-Centric Apps in WinForms“:

This 3-part series really belonged as a chapter in my WinForms book, but after doubling the estimated size of the book (not to mention the amount of time it was supposed to take to write it), my publisher was anxious for me to stop writing.

For those folks accustomed to the document management support in MFC or for anyone that needs to build document-centric WinForms application, I think you'll like this series.

Part 1 discusses the basics of document management in SDI WinForms apps.

Part 2 discusses MDI apps and deeper shell integration.

Part 3 wraps most everything up into a reusable component, turning the construction of document management features in .NET largely into some drag-n-drop and some property browser settings. The resultant FileDocument component is available in the latest Genghis sources (although not yet in the release zip) @ http://www.genghisgroup.com

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