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WinForms in C# was pretty decent tbh. Not so sure about WCF/Metro/Modern and whatever it is now that Microsoft been releasing. They just stopped caring about consistent UI for apps on Windows altogether since ~2010 or so.


WinForms is fine but it makes it way too easy to put all your behavior in the code behind instead of doing things nicely. Which I guess is what you want for a non-programmer tool but it is a hassle for me. Either way the .NET UI situation is a mess and I’ve never seen the sense in picking up the latest flavor of the month since it will be out of favor by the time I have occasion to use it.


You say was but winforms is still supported in VS2022 and is probably my go-to if I need to hack together a small windows program.


Correct, but it hasn't been upgraded in over a decade. It no longer produces apps that are consistent with Microsoft's own the way it was until Windows 7.




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