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I gave up on chasing every new shiny thing MS produces. Winforms work great. They are stable - there are a million packages for it out there and it can work with the version of the framework that's installed with every copy of Windows.

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I have seen systems developed over decades and they are a complete mess, the worst had these components:

- vb com+ - c++ dcom - c++ mfc - .net 1.1 winform - .net 4 - wpf - delphi

Microsoft causes this by events like build which go “we are betting everything on x” then the year later it is “x was cool but look at xx”

Gahhhhhh

VB6 forms designer was actually really good. I don't there is still anything that rivals it in terms of stability, customization, speed and round-tripping.

And it's open-source now! I'm looking forward to people creating a better, more portable winforms even if we can't get it from Microsoft.

Doesn't Mono have Winforms already?

Yes, but I don't personally know how complete it is. The only company using it that I'm aware of is Plastic SCM.

This is how we use it:

https://www.mono-project.com/news/2019/02/13/plastic-scm-a-f...

Too bad Winforms is butt ugly.

It looks native, it's fine. The problem I've found is high-dpi support is still a dogs dinner.

Pretty sure they've fixed that in recent releases (within 18 months, I believe) of Windows 10. You should only need to recompile to gain hi-DPI awareness, if I recall properly.

No, there are still problems. My understanding is there will be further work on the .Net Core version although I haven't paid any attention to that so far.

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