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lojol
lojol

Reputation: 471

Is WinForms GUI?

I have read that winforms apps are programs with graphical user interface. Is that correct? I thought winforms are just API?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 390

Answers (6)

Jeffery You
Jeffery You

Reputation: 109

WinForm is a kind of GUI application.

Upvotes: 0

Film Creator
Film Creator

Reputation: 375

I think you quite confused because, Window Forms Applications are not GUIs rather Windows Forms applications also contains Graphical Interfacing.

Upvotes: 0

Swanand
Swanand

Reputation: 4115

Yes... It is API! Wikipedia Says: "Windows Forms is the name given to the graphical application programming interface (API) included as a part of Microsoft .NET Framework, providing access to native Microsoft Windows interface elements by wrapping the extant Windows API in managed code."

Upvotes: 0

Øyvind Bråthen
Øyvind Bråthen

Reputation: 60694

GUI(Graphical User Interface) is the interface the user uses to communicate with your application. So yes, WinForms is a GUI API indeed.

Upvotes: 2

escargot agile
escargot agile

Reputation: 22379

WinForms in an API for desktop GUI. It includes many different controls, such as buttons, test boxes, list boxes etc... Any common control that a typical window would have.

Upvotes: 0

David Mårtensson
David Mårtensson

Reputation: 7600

Winforms is plattform for GUI design for local programs the same way that ASP.net is a plattform for GUI on web applications.

An alternative would be console programs that execute in the command console and only use text output or services that have no GUI at all.

Upvotes: 0

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