I want to develop a application, I assume this will be build in WinForms or WPF. The concept is to use a Windows Service machine to play 'slides' or'panels' via a publicly shown large screen or TV.
I can do this today in a very basic form. Single screen layout for example. What I want to do is have many screen layouts which can be added and removed without having to recompile my application.
I guess I'll need a main executable file which looks in a folder on my server for DLL's that's be the various layout options (???) via a webserice i'll download the 'rules' of which panel to display, for how long and what content should be shown on it.
My question is....
What Windows form control would I use to change my form layout? or how can I do this? could each DLL be a Windows form and i just open them all up on my application load and show/hide them all?
How could this be done in WPF?