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Visual Studio still supports WinForms including the graphical form designer, which is very close to the OG Delphi experience in late 90s (esp. since WinForms is
by int_19h 1y ago
Visual Studio still supports WinForms including the graphical form designer, which is very close to the OG Delphi experience in late 90s (esp. since WinForms is such a blatant rip off VCL).
- pjmlp 1y agoYou are missing a step there, before Windows Forms there was WFC, Windows Foudation Classes (not to mix with the other WFC from .NET), used in J++, one of the reasons for Sun's lawsuit. Alongside events, and J/Direct the percursor to P/Invoke. https://news.microsoft.com/source/1998/03/10/microsoft-visual-j-6-0-combines-productivity-of-java-language-with-power-of-windows/ https://news.microsoft.com/source/1998/03/10/microsoft-visua... It was WFC that was the rip off, WinForms is basically WFC redone in C#.
- int_19h 1y agoIndeed, but very few people remember J++ or WFC, so I simplified that story. Either way, someone coming from VCL will see a lot of familiar things in System.ComponentModel.