This API is a part of .NET Framework 3.0

Windows Forms is the name given to the graphical user interface application programming interface (API) included as a part of Microsoft's .NET Framework, providing access to the native Microsoft Windows interface elements by wrapping the existing Windows API in managed code. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of Application programming interfaces (APIs available in the Microsoft Windows Operating Managed code is computer program code that executes under the management of a Virtual machine, unlike unmanaged code which is executed directly by the computer's While it is seen as a replacement for the earlier and more complex C++ based Microsoft Foundation Class Library, it does not offer a paradigm comparable to model-view-controller. C++ (" C Plus Plus " ˌsiːˌplʌsˈplʌs is a general-purpose Programming language. The Microsoft Foundation Class Library (also Microsoft Foundation Classes or MFC) is a library that wraps portions of the Windows API Model-view-controller ( MVC) is an architectural pattern used in Software engineering. Some after-market and third party libraries have been created to address this issue. The most widely used of these is the User Interface Process Application Block, which is released by the Microsoft patterns & practices group as a free download that includes the source code to the core library and quick start examples.

As of 13 May 2008, Mono's System. Windows. Forms 2. 0 is API complete (contains 100% of classes, methods etc. in Microsoft's System. Windows. Forms 2. 0); also System. Windows. Forms 2. 0 works natively on Mac OS X.

Hello World Example

The following is a simple C# program using Windows Forms. C# (pronounced C Sharp is a Multi-paradigm

using System;
using System. Windows. Forms;
 
public class HelloWorld
{
   [STAThread]
   public static void Main()
   {
      MessageBox. Show("Hello world!");
   }
}

See also

• BackgroundWorker
• Swing, the equivalent GUI application programming interface (API) for the Java programming language
• VCL - Borland's Visual Component Library

External links

• MSDN: Building Windows Forms applications
• MSDN : Windows.Forms reference documentation
• Official community site
• Code Project: Windows Forms application samples