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Future of WinForms

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  • 17-09-2015 4:46pm
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    NeutralHandle
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭


    I'm looking at new roles and I've been contacted about a few involving WinForms. I have experience with it but I have a suspicion that it's on its way out as a technology. Any thoughts or insights about its future?


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    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,501 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    NeutralHandle wrote: »
    I'm looking at new roles and I've been contacted about a few involving WinForms. I have experience with it but I have a suspicion that it's on its way out as a technology. Any thoughts or insights about its future?

    It has already been replaced by WPF.
    I still like it when I just need a very basic user interface.


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    Berserker
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    As BrokenArrows has stated, WPF has replaced it. There is still a huge amount of Winforms work out there though. Many places are happy to stick with their old WinForms applications once the application is working well. WPF can be quite a hard sell when you sit down with the application owners. Performance and reliability tend to supersede a funky UI.


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    NeutralHandle
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭NeutralHandle


    Yeah seems like there's more WinForms work than WPF which is a bit weird. The official line seems to be that WinForms will coexist with WPF but I think you might both be right. Reckon it's reflected by Oracle firmly shoving a resistant userbase towards their markup-based JavaFX instead of Swing.


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