“Are you willing to hitch .net? Let’s start with …. A Windows Form !!!”
Specifically designed to develop rich client applications, Windows Forms is a set of managed libraries in .NET Framework.
Winforms provide an excellent variety of controls including Button, TextBox, Radio Button, CheckBox, and other data & connection controls along with options to create custom controls.
Winforms contains classes for creating brushes, fonts, icons, and other graphic objects (such as line and circle).
Advantages :
- It’s older and so is more tried and tested.
- There are numerous developers with experience in Winforms.
- When you’ll have to do more of designer work in Visual Studio, like writing, better opt for WinForms than for WPF.
WinForms grant permission to the native Microsoft Windows interface elements by wrapping the existing Windows API in a managed code.
Windows application is accessible only from the system, in which it is installed!!!