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Running Win32 UI code as WinForms through .net is a lot less painful than doing straight Win32. Not very good for deploying a tiny program obviously though.
by alkonaut 5y ago
Running Win32 UI code as WinForms through .net is a lot less painful than doing straight Win32. Not very good for deploying a tiny program obviously though.
- ripley12 5y agoThere's been a lot of work happening to make WinForms trimmable. I think it will land in the upcoming .NET release (7) or the next one, I'm looking forward to being able to ship small WinForms apps with zero dependencies. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues/4649 https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues/4649
- pjmlp 5y agoOr MFC/ATL. Only masochits do pure C Win32, even back in the Win16 days we were better with OWL, MFC and VB.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoWTL builds on ATL and is far nicer than MFC.
- pjmlp 5y agoIs WTL still mantained, though? That is why I did not mentioned it.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoIt's quiet but doesn't seem dead. I've heard Microsoft use it extensively internally and it has come from a MS employee.