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Having worked extensively with both WinForms and Delphi GUI designers, I consider WinForms far better. WinForms designer is actual C# code, you can copy and execute that code outside of the designer. It's possible to search for references to a control in the designer, just the same as any other code. Often in Delphi, trying to accomplish the same thing in code as in the designer had a very obscure relationship. WPF feels much closer to the way Delphi did things, where your GUI is defined in different format than your code. In WinForms, creating a new control requires, well, just write a class that descends from Control, compile, and then you can start using it. In Delphi, creating a new control means you need an independent project, compile it into a package, and figuring out how to install it. I remember fighting Delphi trying to understand the package management system, and it was way more complicated. In WinForms, when you design a new control, it actually executes your code, so design time behaviors actually reflect what will happen at runtime. I remember having stuff in Delphi where a large control would be collapsed into a single line, and you couldn't actually tell what you were working with until you run it. |