Winforms?

[Dougmeister]

When someone is looking for "Winforms" experience (with respect to ASP.NET), what are they talking about?

I realize that even by asking, I'm ruling myself out, but I've been out of the loop for a while now. I thought that they meant Windows forms as opposed to Web forms...?

 

[nickbits]

It is the .NET 1.0/2.0 windows classes. So you are correct that it means Windows forms but it is a specific Microsoft library. Also they have been replaced by WPF.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Winforms is the desktop application equivalent to ASP.NET webforms. In fact, webforms is supposed to be a web-based abstraction of winforms to make web development easier for people who have only done desktop application development. So the answer is, it doesn't really make a lot of sense to look for Winforms experience in an ASP.NET developer, unless you want them working on desktop apps as well as web apps.

Also nickbits, it's not quite correct to say that Winforms has been 'replaced' by WPF. WPF is a neat new technology but Winforms will continue to be supported for a long time to come. You could consider WPF an alternative to Winforms, but certainly not a replacement.

 

[WannaFly]

Originally posted by: nickbits
It is the .NET 1.0/2.0 windows classes. So you are correct that it means Windows forms but it is a specific Microsoft library. Also they have been replaced by WPF.

I'm not sure winforms is being replaced by WPF. Althought I can't find any specific information with a quick search, they are two separate and both fully supported tecnologies.

http://windowsclient.net/wpf/w...when-to-adopt-wpf.aspx

OP: Winforms and ASP.NET are different classes withing .NET, I'm not sure the 2 should ever co-mingle, so noone should be looking for "winforms with respect to ASP.Net"

 

[Crusty]

I certainly wouldn't say WPF is replacing winforms. Winforms has been around for many many years and so many developers are familiar with it it's going to take a lot of time to be using WPF exclusively. Which I guess is the nice part about the two of them, it's easy to integrate them together

 

[Markbnj]

Well, WPF is without question a replacement for Windows forms, just as .NET is a replacement for ATL, MFC and the Win32 API. But it will take a long time to fully assume that role.

 

[JasonCoder]

I, for one, hope that WPF quickly replaces winforms. This is the 21st century and our UIs should look like it.