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.
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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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.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2026’daki bulut ajan entegrasyonu ile kod doğrudan buluta taşınıyor. C++ Copilot ve Debugger Agent gerçek zamanlı işaretim ile hataları tespit ediyor. #VisualStudio2026
🚩 #VisualStudio2026 #BulutEntegrasyonu #Copilot #YazılımGeliştirme
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