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'''Windows Forms, also known as Winforms, is a free, open-source graphical user interface (GUI) class library for building Windows desktop applications. It's a part of Microsoft. NET, NET Framework, or Mono. 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>

At the [[Microsoft Connect]] event on December 4, 2018, [[Microsoft]] announced releasing Windows Forms as an open source project on [[GitHub]]. It is released under the [[MIT License]]. With this release, Windows Forms has become available for projects targeting the [[.NET Core]] framework. However, the framework is still available only on the Windows platform, and [[Mono Framework|Mono's]] incomplete implementation of Windows Forms remains the only cross-platform implementation.<ref name="OpenSourcingGuiMartin">{{cite web |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/msft-open-source-wpf-winforms | title=Microsoft Open Sources WPF, WinForms, and WinUI | last=Martin | first=Jeff | work=InfoQ | date=4 December 2018|access-date=2018-12-06 }}</ref><ref name="OpenSourcingGuiHanselman">{{cite web |url=https://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingWPFWinFormsAndWinUIAreGoingOpenSource.aspx | title=Announcing WPF, WinForms, and WinUI are going Open Source | last=Hanselman | first=Scott | date=4 December 2018|access-date=2018-12-06 }}</ref>