WPF or Windows Forms

c# wpf windows winforms c#-4.0
Juice picture Juice · Apr 21, 2010 · Viewed 55k times · Source

I've been playing around with C# console applications for about a year and I want to move on to creating GUI applications. I have never done any GUI development besides basic Java applications, but I want to continue using C#. Should I start learning Windows Forms or jump straight to WPF? Is there a huge difference? Does WPF build on top of Windows Forms or are they totally different?

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Justin Niessner picture Justin Niessner · Apr 21, 2010

If you're just starting out, jump straight into WPF.

It will allow you to get starting making rich interfaces using mark-up to define your interface without teaching you the possible bad habits (for WPF) that you'd learn from Windows Forms.

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