Will Windows Forms be deprecated in favor of WPF?

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Hello Everyone,

We're starting a new project and are trying to decide to use either Windows Forms or WPF.

I would like to better understand if Microsoft is planning on stopping new development of the Windows Forms technology and forcing all new development to eventually go to WPF, or if both technologies will be maintained and improved. (Or are they just going to wait and see how it goes before making up their mind?)

I would like to know your feedback about this strategy ?

Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards.
MiQi.

Posted 29-Aug-12 22:13pm

SuperMiQi

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SuperMiQi 30-Aug-12 5:30am

What do you think ? How long will this still be supported ?

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2012-08-29T22:31:00

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Microsoft will probably like this to happen, but realistically there is still a lot of WinForms usage and arguably it is more performant for business style applications.

It is still supported in VS2012 so you are safe at least for the next 2 years.

Posted 29-Aug-12 22:31pm

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Clifford Nelson · Answer 2 · 2012-08-30T08:05:00

WinForms are probably here for a long time. I beleive that there are a lot more WinForm developers than WPF. There is a steep learning curve for WPF. Once a programmer is comfortable with WPF it is probably easier to create a WPF form than a WinForm. However, neither product has a lot of support from Microsoft anymore. For a while it looked like Microsoft was headed towards Silverlight for desktop (no reason is supporting both Silverlight and WPF, use the same code base), but now it looks like Microsoft is stepping away from further improvement in Silverlight. For whatever crazy reason, Microsoft is going to HTML 5 even though it is a much more limited technology than Silverlight.