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N. VermeirIntroducing .NET 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7319-7_4

4. Desktop Development

Nico Vermeir1  
(1)
Merchtem, Belgium
 

I often get the question if there is still use in learning desktop technologies like WPF or WinForms. My answer is always the same: of course there is! There has been a big movement toward the Web the past few years, which definitely makes sense in regard to ease of deployment and installation. No need to juggle MSI files around, making sure every client computer has the correct version of .NET installed, finding out what version of the software a customer is using, and so on. With web applications, we install the software on ...

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