Is winforms still moving forward? Anything new in .net 4?

[mat]

Winforms does not seem to be getting a lot of attention from Microsoft.
I'm sure winforms is not going away, but is it becoming rather static? I
have looked at wpf and silverlight and even in the vs2010 beta they seem
to be harder to build crud type user interfaces with. Assuming that
winforms can be used over internet based network connections, they still
seem like perhaps the best platform for building LOB applications?

There also seem to be few online resources for winforms.
WindowsClient.net is pretty slow moving...what are other useful
resources?

Oh, and everywhere you read about winforms 2.0. That's dating from vs
2005 right? Is there any later version of winforms?

 

[mat]

Winforms does not seem to be getting a lot of attention from Microsoft.
I'm sure winforms is not going away, but is it becoming rather static? I
have looked at wpf and silverlight and even in the vs2010 beta they seem
to be harder to build crud type user interfaces with. Assuming that
winforms can be used over internet based network connections, they still
seem like perhaps the best platform for building LOB applications?

There also seem to be few online resources for winforms.
WindowsClient.net is pretty slow moving...what are other useful
resources?

Oh, and everywhere you read about winforms 2.0. That's dating from vs
2005 right? Is there any later version of winforms?

Hmm. Didn't expect to get zero responses. I suppose some kind of meaning
can be derived from that.

I still don't get it. Winforms seems to be a completely viable
technology and for many kinds of applications it seems to be a much more
productive route to take than wpf or silverlight, now.

Can anyone point me to any more active forums or newsgroup for winforms?

 

[Mick Doherty]

Things are still happening in WinForms, there may be more changes in WPF,
but only because it's new.

There may not be a lot of changes but WinForms is updating:
WinForms 1.0 VS2002
WinForms 1.1 VS2003
WinForms 2.0 VS2005
WinForms 3.5 VS2008
WinForms 4.0 VS2010 (currently in Beta)

There are several forums on MSDN Social with the following probably being
most relevant:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winforms/threads/

 

[Patrice]

Not much to say, as you noted Windows Forms is older and likely more mature
and known, WPF is newer and likely still need some updates so it's quite
expected to see WPF getting more changes than Windows Forms...

Try web based forums unfortunately not mirrored using NTTP
(http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories) for WPF. The
current group seems fine for me if you have WinForms questions...

 

[Patrice]

.... And if you have some changes they should be likely in the usual "What's
new" section :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd409230(VS.100).aspx

A quick look gave nothing for now. I believe I just saw one or two minor
changes on a blog and trying to find them I found
http://blog.davemorton.net/2009/05/future-of-winforms-whats-changed-in.html...

For now your best bet lmight be to download the beta and check by yourself
using the same tool...