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Comment by pragmatic

6 days ago

Windows Forms are alive and well.

Still supported in latest .net versions.

A hearty +1 to using WinForms (as long as your desktop app targets Windows only, of course). The fact that WinForms has outlasted so many other UI toolkits is a testament to its simplicity and ease of use. I still use it in numerous personal projects, and I don't foresee Microsoft dropping support for it anytime in the near future.

I'm still using a few JScript.NET Windows forms applications I wrote over 10 years ago. Works great. jsc.exe is still on every Windows machine, and makes it easy to write Javascript and compile to .exe or even .dlls.

Same. Claude is good at it. Plenty of training material and the way we design Windows Forms apps hasn't changed in 20+ years.