What's new with WinForms | .NET Conf 2023

Since we added WinForms to .NET in .NET Core 3.0 we've been making a lot of improvements for our developers. This session will go over some of these improvements in both the runtime and the Visual Studio WinForms designer. You'll see that WinForms is alive and well in .NET!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:08 Welcome
00:42 WinForms - a brief history
02:25 WinForms in .NET
03:35 Improving the look and feel
05:00 Demo
13:18 New TaskDialog Button
14:42 Visual Studio Experience
15:59 DPI Unaware designing
18:00 Demo
21:26 Command Bindings in WinForms .NET
23:31 Accessibility
24:18 Tell us about your migration

#dotnet

[jcddcjjcdnz]

Love the attention Winforms is getting.

[TheExtinctSpecie]

Big fan of the changes. Glad winforms is getting some love

[JakobSagatowski]

The Winforms GUI editor is still to this day amazing. WinForms has been the saviour in a few scientific projects I've been involved in, thanks to the huge amount of great resources and thanks to how easy it is to setup and get going. Thanks ❤

[mohdotnet]

Quite happy winforms is not dead.
Love this tech

[josefromspace]

Great to see WinForms (and its team) still growing and strong! 😃

[dirkschannel]

Thanks for the updates :-) The longevity of WinForms is a value in an of it self.

[kirbymankandenpf]

Windows Forms is old faithful, reliable as hell, it does the job, and the control layout system is very simple, been using it a VERY VERY long time and will continue to do so.

[Malekzadeh]

Feels like I lost my beloved reliable friend through the storms of new technologies over the years and now I found out that he is Ok and ones again got attention he deserved to grow. Missed you buddy🤜 #WinForms

[anm]

This is the best program of the NET Conf 2023 … thanks. Is dark mode possible in WinForm now?

[DanielMendozaDev]

LOVED the DPIUnaware feature!

We’ve lost literal days of work because a dev/designer forgot to run VS at 100% scaling and moves all the complex controls within a form or two. This change is a godsend.

[rotgertesla]

still using winforms in my new projects

[randompep]

Glad to see it's still around and alive. Used them for desktop apps like 15 years ago, and it seems they're still alive and kicking 🙂

[cheebadigga]

Thank you! Default font and DPI unaware mode is exactly what I was missing.

[MrFEMGM]

Is a great job! WInforms is a very fast development tool, which is great for many use cases. Thanks.

[jd]

Thanks for keeping these alive. VB! VB! VB! ❤

[jose-sebastian-garcia]

Lo ideal para mi sería winforms con los features de wpf, no quiero escribir xml, quiero ubicar los controles donde quiero, ajustarlos bien, dar esquinas redondeadas, animaciones etc... pero en la estructura de winforms que es más amigable.

[michaelkhalsa]

Thank you! I am really looking forward to trying the dpi unaware feature, as this has always been a pain. Still in net 4.8, but this inspires me to migrate.

[roquemocan]

WinForms is the FASTEST way to do a Line of Business application (maybe not the prettiest, granted)

[MichealColhoun]

That dpi unaware setting is a big deal. It was such a pain.

[volante]

Grazie per supportare ed evolvere Winforms e WPF. Per lo sviluppo su Windows rimangono insostituibili. ❤ Aspettiamo su Winforms che si possa effettuare il designer con DPI elevati, e che si possa completare il pieno supporto su DPI elevati su Windows. 🎉