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The future of WinForms...

Source: CodeProject     Posted by Kent Sharkey    Wednesday, October 11, 2017 6:00pm    
It's on the shelf, next to The Future of MFC, XML: The perfect choice for any decision, and The Design Perfection of JavaScript

Like most LOB apps, this is a MS-centric shop, so I'm just curious to know what the latest buzz is on the geek street.



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General...is the future of desktop apps Pin
Tomaž Štih11-Oct-17 23:29
Tomaž Štih11-Oct-17 23:29 
To tell the truth I've never worked with a larger pile of crap than WPF. It is a complicated, HTML duplicating, half baked, non updating, patterns over killing ... anomaly ... that provides zero productivity boost over WinForms and I'm still seeking for a cult that actually divides programming between a C# writing programmer and a XAML writing graphical designer. That'll be the day.

They should've detached WinForms from underlying Windows and extended it instead. WinForms is a result of three decades of event driven GUI development. Bloody Bill's Che Guevaras threw it away for a poor experiment in complicating what has already been simplified in the 90ties.
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Marc Clifton12-Oct-17 5:36
mvaMarc Clifton12-Oct-17 5:36 

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