Windows Forms

Windows Forms, more commonly known as Winforms, is a free and open-source GUI library for .NET. Windows Forms provides GUI elements to help developers easily create client-side GUI Applications.^[1]

Open Sourcing

At a Microsoft Connect event on December 4th, 2018, it was announced that Windows Forms, with WPF and WinUi would be released open source. ^[2] This also allowed for forks to be created, as well as attempts at creating a cross-platform version of the library.

References

↑ "Design and Implementation Guidelines for Web Clients by Microsoft Pattern and Practices". Microsoft. November 2003.
↑ Martin, Jeff (4 December 2018). "Microsoft Open Sources WPF, WinForms, and WinUI". InfoQ. Retrieved 2018-12-06.

[1] "Design and Implementation Guidelines for Web Clients by Microsoft Pattern and Practices". Microsoft. November 2003.

[OpenSourcingGuiMartin-2] Martin, Jeff (4 December 2018). "Microsoft Open Sources WPF, WinForms, and WinUI". InfoQ. Retrieved 2018-12-06.

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