Win Forms

[Brian Copeland]

REgarding the article about Win Forms on the next gen visual studio web site...

One of the pictures showing the building of win forms, shows a section for
web forms as well...now, if win forms can load/unload from a persons computer
on the fly, why need web forms....and more importantly make us have to program
two complete user interfaces.

The article started out saying that Microsoft has not forgotten about the
traditional desktop application, but with Win Forms seems to have brought
the two together. Then why need Web Forms?

Maybe I am not understanding all that I have read, but if anyone who is not
infringing on the NDA, can you please explain this a little more?

Otherwise, it looks awesome, with an in place menu editor, etc.

ADO+ looks to be quite grand, if it works <G>

Brian

[Jim Pragit]

Web Forms can run on any platform via a browser. Win Forms only run on Windows.

- Jim

"Brian Copeland" <drwho@cgocable.net> wrote:
>
>REgarding the article about Win Forms on the next gen visual studio web
site...
>
>One of the pictures showing the building of win forms, shows a section for
>web forms as well...now, if win forms can load/unload from a persons computer
>on the fly, why need web forms....and more importantly make us have to program
>two complete user interfaces.
>
>The article started out saying that Microsoft has not forgotten about the
>traditional desktop application, but with Win Forms seems to have brought
>the two together. Then why need Web Forms?
>
>Maybe I am not understanding all that I have read, but if anyone who is
not
>infringing on the NDA, can you please explain this a little more?
>
>Otherwise, it looks awesome, with an in place menu editor, etc.
>
>ADO+ looks to be quite grand, if it works <G>
>
>Brian

[Micah Swigert]

It's my guess that Web forms are the next iteration of ASP pages, therefore
they can run within a browser on pretty much any platform.

Win Forms look like they are still Win32 windows behind the scenes, therefore
a Win Forms solution can only work on a Windows platform, with the Web as
a delivery and installation vehicle.

Anybody else have ideas?

BTW, does anybody know if Win Form projects themselves would be auto-updatable?
I mean, the first install is a no-brainer. It's doing another install after
a bug fix that would make this deployment situation interesting.

Micah


"Brian Copeland" <drwho@cgocable.net> wrote:
>
>REgarding the article about Win Forms on the next gen visual studio web
site...
>
>One of the pictures showing the building of win forms, shows a section for
>web forms as well...now, if win forms can load/unload from a persons computer
>on the fly, why need web forms....and more importantly make us have to program
>two complete user interfaces.
>
>The article started out saying that Microsoft has not forgotten about the
>traditional desktop application, but with Win Forms seems to have brought
>the two together. Then why need Web Forms?
>
>Maybe I am not understanding all that I have read, but if anyone who is
not
>infringing on the NDA, can you please explain this a little more?
>
>Otherwise, it looks awesome, with an in place menu editor, etc.
>
>ADO+ looks to be quite grand, if it works <G>
>
>Brian