Chapter 32. Windows Forms
Windows Forms was the original Windows client user interface toolkit that shipped with .NET version 1.0. There have been many enhancements and additions since then, but the basic design approach has remained the same. You can use Windows Forms to quickly create programs that match the look and feel of Windows, and there is an extensive market in third-party add-ons that enrich the overall feature set.
Windows Forms has lost some programmer mind share since the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which is covered in Chapter 33, was released. WPF doesn't replace Windows Forms, but many programmers have moved to it because it is a new technology and because it has richer support for multimedia. This is a shame, because ...
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