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  • Ask HN: Any way to write a simple desktop app anymore?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2024
    Windows Forms[0] is still alive and will never die, and very low overhead to start with, and works on new and shiny .NET 8.

    If Linux or macOS, you can use AvaloniaUI[1] instead which is sufficiently advanced but assumes some prior knowledge.

    [0] https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/main/docs/getting-st...

    [1] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/get-started/

  • A GitHub issue suggests the removal of the WebBrowser control in WinForms. If you think this is a bad idea, be sure to voice your disapproval on the issue!
    1 project | /r/csharp | 30 Nov 2023
  • Duda carrera: C#/.NET vs. Node/Express
    13 projects | /r/devsarg | 18 May 2023
    Winforms: Licencia MIT.
  • We Got the Generics We Have (2022)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2023
    3. Therefore reified generics are not possible to implement in a backwards compatible way.

    Ok, sure, but if you instead a new generic collection types and leave the old ones alone, you don’t have to worry about breaking existing compiled code.

    This comment about C# suggests a lack of familiarity with the approach C# took:

    > C# made the opposite choice — to update their VM, and invalidate their existing libraries and all the user code that dependend on it.

    All of the pre-generic C# libraries continue to exist to this day (ArrayList, HashTable, and the non-generic IEnumerable). Applications that used them never stopped working. New code uses the generic collections (List and Dictionary).

    Anyways, I think the costs that Java is currently paying for non-reified generics (reflection, performance, and type safety mentioned in the article) is not worth the backwards comparability with the 20 year old J2SE 1.4. The price C# pays for making a backwards incompatible generics (mostly some minor annoyance when designing a collection class implementing IEnumerable) is worth it at this point.

    P.S. ok, I do admit that C# forking the collection library is still causing ongoing maintenance work 18 years later: https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/pull/8673

  • When A .NET Developer Learns Blazor
    5 projects | /r/csharp | 15 Mar 2023
    No, it is fully supported and in active development. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms
  • WPF Roadmap 2023
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 21 Feb 2023
    No, it's still under active development/maintenance. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/graphs/contributors
  • Where are these images stored?
    1 project | /r/dotnet | 13 Nov 2022
    The image is kept in-memory— https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/main/src/System.Windows.Forms/src/System/Windows/Forms/PictureBox.cs
  • Does anyone know how to make a UITypeEditor for Winforms that works in .NET 6?
    1 project | /r/csharp | 24 Oct 2022
    Appears that this has been broken for a while. Seems it has something to do with the new designers being run out of process.
  • Why is Microsoft's C# not taught in most universities and Java is instead?
    6 projects | /r/microsoft | 15 Sep 2022
    Also, the runtime that C# runs on, is also completely open source as well (https://github.com/dotnet/runtime); ASP.NET which is used to create web apps in C# is open as well (https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore). WinForms/WPF, used to make desktop apps in C# is also open source (https://github.com/dotnet/wpf, https://github.com/dotnet/winforms). All of the source code for these are on the dotnet Github page: https://github.com/dotnet and most are all MIT-licensed.
  • Announcing .NET 7 Preview 5
    3 projects | /r/csharp | 14 Jun 2022
    You'll likely have to open an issue against https://github.com/dotnet/winforms. If you've already opened an issue here, then feel free to link and I might be able to provide suggestions on how to improve the triage process.
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dotnet/winforms is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of winforms is C#.

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