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Winforms will never die. If I was looking to make an investment into a skillset that will still be really useful in thirty years, I would go deep on WinForms.
by thrower123 5y ago
Winforms will never die. If I was looking to make an investment into a skillset that will still be really useful in thirty years, I would go deep on WinForms.
- js4ever 5y agoHum, my last winform app is from 2009, after that all projects ordered from customers where in web ui instead (same customers)
- thrower123 5y agoAll of my real products are web-based. But WinForms is immensely useful in building tools, and configuration utilities, and little one-off GUI things for various reasons. Anything that would take less time to slam together soup-to-nuts than just getting webpack working for a new project would take.
- pjmlp 5y agoMy last one is from 2016, now I am mostly doing other stuff, but there are plenty of places that still are quite into this kind of frameworks. Just as example, companies that buy this kind of software, https://perkinelmerinformatics.com/ https://perkinelmerinformatics.com/
- int_19h 5y agoAt this point, WPF won't die, either.
- pjmlp 5y agoAnd has lots of features that WinUI or UWP will never get. Doing a 3D visualization for a LOB application? WPF can handle it. Doing the same in UWP/WinUI? Ah the pour soul needs to go learn C++, C++/WinRT and DirectX then make use of SwapChainPanel, or trying to fit a third party .NET game engine into the application. Then the team acts surprised that WPF has 3D capabilities when asked about this. Apparently doing requirement analysis for what a replacement framework should cover wasn't part of the deal.
- slowmotiony 5y agoWinForms or COBOL. You'll be set for life :-)