WPF or Winforms

Alright it's been a while since my last thread, however I think expressing my opinion over this topic can lift my stress over this topic. WPF or Winforms?

 

Both WPF and Winforms have their pros and cons however both are quite reliable in their own way. I'm certain majority of you have never tried making your own Winforms controls (Ex: button style, tab control style, etc).

 

Winforms - C# reliant, flexible, simple to use for designing, lightweight.

 

The reasons I state its more C# reliant is that majority of you probably never attempted in making your own controls. Winforms can be customized heavily with the use of C#. In addition there isn't much else to learn whilst using Winforms (Ex: xaml). If you never seen a good winforms exploit UI i recommend checking out Iris's amazing exploit uis or releases on the v3rmillion site (not a promotion).

 

WPF - design heavy, less C#, more markup, reliable but takes time.

 

I will be honest, I use WPF alot. I don't like saying I'm an absolute god at WPF because I am not. However as a person who works in WPF I can confirm that making a UI in WPF requires ALOT of time management. WPF doesn't need you to know any to all C# for you to make a good ui with nice styles. Styles can be made in xaml or C#. If any of you saw or used Furk Ultra's UI (made by Atrexus) it doesn't use any to all xaml styles at all. It uses C# primarily for the majority of the ui. However either is fine depending on whichever you're primarily used to.

 

Xaml is something people find "difficult" and I can somewhat agree to this statement. Xaml isn't hard till you try learning more, such as using controls you didn't even know existed.

(I bet none of you heard of what a canvas or a grid splitter is) . Knowing more xaml doesn't guarantee your UI will look any better, however you will get a better understanding over how your styles work. WPF is used for a few modern login UIs or normal applications. Here's an example of what I made in WPF.

 

Grisaia Login: https://lose-your.virginity.today/Dixp5WQF_

 

NVIDIA Login: https://lose-your.virginity.today/ZtKoFFJ8_

 

This is just my thoughts over WPF or Winforms, you can have your own thoughts on this however I just felt like sharing it out.

 

Additional forgotten point:

 

wpf like its name "Windows Presentation Foundation" is more Advanced, it uses xaml to have better optimisation and smoother usage while using the build, it also supports alot more c# classes and controls than winforms - Devathats also the reason its easier to switch between the 2 xaml and c# and it has alot more controls because of the mix

thats also the reason its easier to switch between the 2 xaml and c# and it has alot more controls because of the mix