Windows Form APP Development from .NET 3.0

[Jia Lu]

Hello

I want to know if MS is not going to use Windows Form APP since WPF
created ?
I see that the .NET Class about windows form are not changed so much
from .net 2.0.

BTW can anyone tell me what are improved from 2.0 to 3.5 about windows
form application development ?

Thanx

 

[Tim Roberts]

I want to know if MS is not going to use Windows Form APP since WPF
created ?
I see that the .NET Class about windows form are not changed so much
from .net 2.0.

Why should they change? The low-level Windows UI APIs haven't changed
substantially in a decade or more.

 

[Pavel Minaev]

I want to know if MS is not going to use Windows Form APP since WPF
created ?

There hasn't been any conclusive official statement on that, but if
you read MSDN & Technet blogs, the following is the condensed wisdom:

1) WinForms will be maintained and supported in 4.0 and beyond.
2) If you use WPF, you'll get a cookie.

It's also worth looking at where the wind blows for MS products
themselves. You may have noticed that some of the most recent bunch
that didn't have old roots - the Expression suite - are all WPF.
Visual Studio 2010 is also going to be WPF-based in many parts of the
UI, including the editor (which you can see for yourself in the CTP
already), and the main window with its menu, toolbars and panes (which
you can see in the PDC videos with ScottGu, but not in the CTP).

BTW can anyone tell me what are improved from 2.0 to 3.5 about windows
form application development ?

Go here and scroll all the way down to WinForms:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332048.aspx

Also do the same for this one to see the new stuff in 3.5 SP1:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713697.aspx