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by int_19h 246 days ago
Visual Studio still supports WinForms including the graphical form designer, which is very close to the OG Delphi experience in late 90s (esp. since WinForms is such a blatant rip off VCL).
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pjmlp 244 days ago
You are missing a step there, before Windows Forms there was WFC, Windows Foudation Classes (not to mix with the other WFC from .NET), used in J++, one of the reasons for Sun's lawsuit.

Alongside events, and J/Direct the percursor to P/Invoke.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/1998/03/10/microsoft-visua...

It was WFC that was the rip off, WinForms is basically WFC redone in C#.

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int_19h 243 days ago
Indeed, but very few people remember J++ or WFC, so I simplified that story.

Either way, someone coming from VCL will see a lot of familiar things in System.ComponentModel.

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