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WinForms was never "quickly abandoned" ... MFC has been the defacto standard for Windows UI since Win 3.1
by tomc1985 7y ago
WinForms was never "quickly abandoned" ... MFC has been the defacto standard for Windows UI since Win 3.1
- DaiPlusPlus 7y agoWinForms did not receive any significant updates after .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 - integration with the new User32 controls added in Windows 7 was only through downloaded optional redistributable DLLs. Ever since the .NET Framework 3.0 (and until UWP) Microsoft was selling WPF as the way to build Windows desktop applications without C/C++.