Developing Modern WinForms Applications

Windows Forms isn't just for quick and simple applications. WinForms has long been used for LOB and Enterprise applications, and in recent years has gone open source on GitHub. Learn about the new features WinForms has in .NET and find out about what's coming up on our roadmap.

You will learn:
New features in WinForms
Async Development in WinForms
Changes to serialization coming in .NET 9

Featuring: Merrie McGaw, Klaus Loeffelman

#dotnet #vslive #visualstudio

[kirbymankandenpf]

I am still an active developer of Windows Forms applications every single day with no intention of stopping!!! The easiest way to make a program with a GUI. Function over form unlike WPF.

[didierfolly]

Thank you for this demo. Happy to see the new improvements!

[tosunabi]

Left WinForms for WPF and beyond. Now it's winking me again. Good to see WinForms kicking and it's still the easiest to make UIs.

[ronyolazabal]

Windows Forms cannot do what we did with Visual Fox Pro: have a VFP executable and call from any screen other VFP source files with SCT and SCX extensions, this way different clients could extend the functionality of the main executable system. And they could do it with a VFP environment and easily create any additional SCX screen without compiling.

[호수-mw]

How can I get sample code and ppt file?

[philipnjoroge]

Every winforms video i come across on youtube, i swear, the comments are usually like "i still use winforms for enterprises" or "still the most stable applications by MS" or "Fastest way to build an application on someone says they have no intention of improving theming and have left it to third parties!?...no wonder there is no free third party WinForms vendor

[fmachine]

Good grief. Reading these comments, it’s so painfully obvious how low skilled modern software devs are thanks to garbage bootcamps/diploma mills/etc. You’re the reason why modern development culture is broken.

If your building an internal tool for enterprise with one or two dev team and speed is an utmost priority, winforms still has its place. Learn things.

[GoGCaM]

Please re-think about your VB strategy. Not dead, not done! Keep envolving 🙏🏻

[SimpMcSimpy]

WinForms is great, but lack of hardware acceleration is huge weak point, especially on 4K screens.
I will never understand why MS decided to leave it as GDI+ only. If Devexpress managed to upgrade WinForms to DirectX, why Microsoft can't do the same ?
Microsoft, please instead of all this AI stuff you are now dropping into all products consider actually adding something we need; and that is hardware accelerated WinForms.

[playtheblues]

Modern UI and feel? Still using Vista style min/max/restore. So bad. This is NOT modern. C'mon MS!!

[another_random_video_channel]

dotnet MAUI Blazor is a thousand better than winform