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The Current Status Of The Windows Forms Designer For .NET Applications

The Windows Forms (WinForms) Team has been working hard over the last few Visual Studio release cycles to bring the WinForms designer for .NET applications up to equivalence with the.NET Framework designer. As you may know, a new WinForms designer was required to support.NET Core 3.1 and later.NET 5+ apps. As a result of the differences between.NET and the.NET Framework-based WinForms designer that everyone knows and loves, the task necessitated a near-complete redesign of the designer. The purpose of this blog post is to provide you with some information on the new architecture and the changes made. And, of course, how those changes will affect you when you develop custom controls and.NET WinForms apps.