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Classic WinForms overview

Classic WinForms overview - .NET Tutorial

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Classic WinForms overview

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- [Instructor] Windows Forms commonly known as WinForms, continues to maintain a strong and devoted customer base despite the rise of newer technologies. It remains a viable tool, particularly in businesses where stability, familiarity, and cost effectiveness are critical. Organizations with long established desktop applications often rely on WinForms due to its simplicity and ease of use. WinForms has been around since .NET1. It is a mature platform. Many legacy WinForm applications developed years ago, or even decades ago, continue to run seamlessly on modern operating systems like Windows 10 and 11, demonstrating the platform stability and forward compatibility. While WinForms excels as stability and compatibility, its user interface design shows its age, it looks dated. Applications built with WinForms often lack the polish, dynamic, and responsive aesthetics seen in modern platforms like WPF, Blazor, Maui, or any other modern platform. But there is something WinForms does better…

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