Joe Stegman - What happens to Windows Forms on Longhorn?

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Sep 10th, 2004 @ 10:41 AM | 48,368 Views | 4 Comments
We've heard lots of rumors about Windows Forms and what'll happen to that technology on the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn.

Will WinForms still work?
Will they still be useful?
Is it worth it to develop with WinForms today? Won't Avalon do away with WinForms?
Can WinForms UIs be used with Avalon, or vice versa?

Joe, lead program manager on the WinForms team, takes on all these questions and more.
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#Sep 10th, 2004 @ 12:16 PM
fabulous
fabulous
.NET Developer, unofficial Evangelist, geek
Great video there guys. I am excited about what the new WinForms will bring for us, considering the amount of coding I had to do to  get my apps to look anything like Office XP and/or Office 2003.


One thing I look forward to is the managed API, I would really love to work with that. Keep up the good work, both the videos and the new features for .NET
#Sep 10th, 2004 @ 7:21 PM
CRPietschmann
CRPietschmann
Chris Pietschmann

When can we see some of these demos?

#May 6th, 2005 @ 7:10 AM
Greyman
Greyman
When I build the Whidbey Beta 2 Outlook 2003 Clone sample, referenced at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/2/e/c2ebe6df-c57b-49a5-b3f3-59393e3cf245/outlook.msi
I get 11 errors and 213 warnings. The warnings are mostly about obselete properties. The errors are mostly "System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView" does not contain a definition for...
Is there an updaate available for this sample that builds with the April Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2?
#May 6th, 2005 @ 7:25 PM
breaman
breaman
How will the older (.NET WinForms) components be rendered?  Will they use the GPU to do the graphics if they are hosted inside of an Avalon application?  Also, if you host Avalon controls inside of a WinForm, are the Avalon controls rendered using the GPU?  Am just wondering how mixing the 2 models (GDI and DirectX) will work when rendering components.
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