I've really never felt that WinForms was "clunky". Compared to Win32, it's amazingly consistent and intuitive - you can learn 75% of it just with the form desig

I've really never felt that WinForms was "clunky". Compared to Win32, it's amazingly consistent and intuitive - you can learn 75% of it just with the form designer and IntelliSense. Doing anything in Win32, by comparison, almost always requires a trip to Google and a paragraph of code. I don't know why anyone would willingly write a Win32 or MFC app over .NET unless they were simply unfamiliar with it, or overly worried about performance, framework availability, or code security.