[Question] What's the difference between WinForms and WDF?

First of all its "WPF" (Windows Presentation Foundation) and not "WDF"

Now here's the differences between them

- Windows Form :

+ Winforms controls have issues regarding dynamic loading, localization (Different versions for different languages) and their ability to be adjustable for people with disablities (Magnification of the button font)

+ Winforms have no real notion of animations which means in winforms you can use C++ and GDI+ or DirectX directly or use a timer control, etc... The outcome is that with winforms the animations is quite difficult and clunky

+ In Winforms colours and in general, the ability to create custom themes for your Forms / Buttons, etc.. is quite difficult

- Windows Presentation Foundation :

+ WPF uses xaml, xaml is bult on top of the WPF API, xaml is an XML type of language and is a familiar paradigm for graphic designers

+ WPF provides a new navigational project type which is navigate back and forth, similar to a browser

+ WPF default layout is flowing, WPF can reshape, resize and reposition controls relative to other controls (Very similar to HTML)

+ Animations in WPF feature Storyboards like timelines

+ Better control and usage of text styles, better printing, silverlight applications

+ With WPF you can scheme an application with the use of styles and templates

Regard,

> Rosery Team | Usagi

@Forgotten_Dev Very biased.

I agree that WPF is much better than Winforms, but winforms has some good points.

1. Easy UI making. You spend less time coding the UI and more time coding the program.

2. What is in VS is exactly how the app willl look. In WPF, there might be some slight (sometimes big) differences between how your app looks on VS and how it looks IRL.

3. Better for beginners. It is overral easier to make a functionning app with winforms than WPF. Even though Winforms responsive sucks and that winforms animation sucks, it's way easier because you don't code in XAML. (basically point 1)

@Wabz for me wpf is easier than winforms lol

i just realized something

https://i.gyazo.com/ea74afe3c736b44bc09c3ecb0f79215f.png

@Wabz Wrong, i'm just listing what both of them can do there and of course it's easier for beginners

I don't really use WPF for RE

@davidTube Evil post count OWO