best Win Form Application Program

[shadowman123]

Which one of those is the best to make stylish Form Application :-

1 - Silverlight
2 - WPF

[CptSky]

Originally Posted by shadowman123

Which one of those is the best to make stylish Form Application :-

1 - Silverlight
2 - WPF

Eh. Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight aren't Windows Forms...

Windows Forms is an old library for the UI, but still really used. The results are simple, but you can do some nice things if you know how to use it.

Windows Presentation Foundation is recent (.net 4.0) and is (I think) less common than WinForms. The UI is in XML, so anyone can edit it easily without big coding knowledge. You can do more advanced UI with it, but I just don't like it. So, I stick with WinForms which is enough powerful.*

Silverlight is not connected with WPF and WinForms... It's an application framework for rich Internet applications.

* Fang did some superb UI with WinForms for his CO2 project.

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And something I did and I found that it's look good.

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Sometimes, simplicity is better than complexity. Also, When you master something, it can offers less options, but you'll still do better thing that with something else. So, I stick with WinForms.

[IAmHawtness]

To add to CptSky's explanation:

WinForms is probably the easiest to learn/use of the two, while WPF is more advanced and flexible. I found databinding a lot simpler and easier using WPF, but that might be just a personal preference.

WPF also uses DirectX which is supposedly faster than GDI+ which WinForms uses.

I would probably recommend sticking with WinForms though since WPF is quite different from WinForms and takes some time to learn.

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[shadowman123]

wow i cant belive what i just saw .. your application is made by WinForm ? Never thought that it can cr8 a stylish application as urs ... Good work m8 btw thx for your infos

Originally Posted by IAmHawtness

To add to CptSky's explanation:

WinForms is probably the easiest to learn/use of the two, while WPF is more advanced and flexible. I found databinding a lot simpler and easier using WPF, but that might be just a personal preference.

WPF also uses DirectX which is supposedly faster than GDI+ which WinForms uses.

I would probably recommend sticking with WinForms though since WPF is quite different from WinForms and takes some time to learn.

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honestly what iam looking into is cr8 a stylish GUI so which 1 do u recommend me to use ?

[Korvacs]

WPF is the way forward really, its an emerging method for creating front ends, and is likely the future unless Metro UI becomes dominant.