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Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/winforms-still-ships-in-visual-studio-2026

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Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987

Every UI framework Microsoft has shipped since WinForms (2002) was sold as its successor. WPF, Silverlight, UWP, MAUI, Blazor desktop. Twenty-four years on, WinForms is still there, on modern .NET, with a designer that any VB6 developer would recognise on sight. The Cooper and Geary form-designer architecture from 1987 is still the path of least resistance for a working line-of-business app in 2026, and that is not an accident.

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RetroComputingMX Jun 3, 2025

¡Conoce a Alan Cooper, el "Padre de Visual Basic"! 💻 Su proyecto "Ruby" evolucionó en VB (1991), democratizando la programación. Un visionario que luego impulsó el diseño centrado al usuario, cambiando cómo creamos software. #retrocomputingmx #alancooper #VisualBasic

https://retrocomputingmx.com/2xof

teledyn 𓂀 Dec 9, 2024

"By definition, creating innovative stuff demands doing things that haven’t been done before. So building an innovative product half way, then throwing it out and building it a second time to completion will not only take less time than building it once, but will result in a far better product, both from an engineering standpoint and from the user’s perspective."

Plan to Throw One Away. A story about Ruby.
#AlanCooper #FatherOfVisualBasic #notthatRuby
https://mralancooper.medium.com/plan-to-throw-one-away-df05fde7bf63

Plan to Throw One Away - Alan Cooper - Medium

Back in the day, the mentality was the more code you could ship the more money you could make. But one of the most important new lessons of the digital era was that code could be a liability as much…

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quoteallthethings #Yang2020 🐉Jul 6, 2019

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you ... #AlanCooper #citation https://openquotes.github.io/authors/alan-cooper-quotes/#689afb86

Alan Cooper Quotes -- OpenQuotes

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