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{{short description|Graphical user interface software library}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Windows Forms (WinForms)

| screenshot = Screenshot ofVB.NET WinForms Designer as seen in Visual Studio 2019.png

| screenshot alt = Screenshot of Windows Forms designer as seen in [[Visual Studio 2019]].

| author = [[.NET Framework|.NET]]: [[Microsoft]],<br />[[Mono Framework|Mono]]: [[Ximian]]/[[Novell]]

| other_names = WinForms

| developer = [[.NET Foundation]]

| released = {{Start date and age|2002|02|13}}

| latest release version = v5.0.17

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2022|05|11}}

| latest preview version =

| latest preview date =

| programming language = [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]]

| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows]]

| platform = [[.NET Framework]], [[.NET]], [[Mono (software)|Mono]]

| genre = [[Software framework]]

| license = [[MIT License]]

| website = {{URL|https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/}}

}}

'''Windows Forms''' (WinForms) is a [[free and open-source]] [[graphical user interface|graphical]] (GUI) [[Library (computing)|class library]] included as a part of [[Microsoft]] [[.NET]], [[.NET Framework]] or [[Mono (software)|Mono]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Windows Forms Programming in C#|last=Sells|first=Chris|publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional|edition=1st|date=September 6, 2003|page=xxxviiii}}</ref> providing a platform to write client applications for desktop, laptop, and tablet PCs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647339.aspx|title=Design and Implementation Guidelines for Web Clients by Microsoft Pattern and Practices|publisher=Microsoft|date=November 2003}}</ref> While it is seen as a replacement for the earlier and more complex [[C++]] based [[Microsoft Foundation Class Library]], it does not offer a comparable paradigm<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Appendix B|title=Moving from MFC, Windows Forms 2.0 Programming|last1=Sells|first1=Chris|last2=Weinhardt|first2=Michael|publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional|edition=2nd|date=May 16, 2006}}</ref> and only acts as a platform for the user interface tier in a [[Multitier architecture|multi-tier]] solution.<ref>{{cite web|title=Introduction to Windows Forms|type=Visual Studio 2003 documentation|publisher=Microsoft 2003|url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa983655(v=vs.71).aspx}}</ref>