Windows Form Application C Download

[Gaetan Horton]

Inthis tutorial, you create a simple C# application that has a Windows-based user interface (UI). The app has a button that changes the text of a label. This simple app has all the components used for more complicated Forms programs.

You can refine your search to quickly get to the template you want. For example, enter Windows Forms App in the search box. Next, choose C# from the language list, and then choose Windows from the platform list.

You can refine your search to quickly get to the template you want. For example, type Windows Forms App in the search box. Next, select C# from the language list, and then select Windows from the platform list.

After you select your C# project template and name your project, Visual Studio opens a form for you. A form is a Windows user interface. Create a Hello World application by adding controls to the form. Then run the app.

I am currently studying Visual Basic .Net but I'm currently using Linux Mint 18 Mate and the only Visual Studio that's available is Visual Studio Code. I was wondering if it's able to create Windows Form Application?

Edit: I just want to update this past as technology has progressed and -us/dotnet/core/install/linux only time will make this question obsolete as Microsoft is releasing some of it technologies to linux

Windows Forms is exclusive to the [Desktop] Windows platform. You can certainly not use VSCode for that, not even in Windows, as VSCode doesn't include form designer tools like the regular Visual Studio IDE. So even in case you could compile, there are still lacking all the facilities needed for designing.

I have built an Excel VBA application that lets you use the Excel IDE UserForm designer to layout your form and a macro that generates tkinter Python code that renders the form. The largest challenge is that for some widgets, tkinter uses font size for height/width where Excel uses Points.[email protected]

I am wondering If Hangfire will also work in a pure Windows Forms environment? I am talking about using Hangfire in a Windows Application to execute Background Jobs. At the moment, all my background jobs are performed on different threads in my windows application. But what happens if the application or pc crashes or is shutting down during processing? All my jobs are canceled and no one will see. But hangfire will retry those jobs after application restart and in future, I may create a Windows Service which executes jobs, triggered by other Windows applications.

If your application is a server one that is placed near the database, why not? It is not tied to any application-level framework. But for client applications that are being installed on user machines it is definitely overkill.

Long Time ago, I started this thread. And now, 3 years later, I have my first implementation of Hangfire inside my client Application.

As documentation of Hangfire changed over years, I was able to integrate it easylie. Now, I have a windows-service for hosting hangfire server, a client application, also hosting a local version of hangfire and even a Dashboard implementation using owin. Now my dreams have become true

On a windows server use Hangfire to have a single repository that replaces the Windows scheduled tasks. You can either use a windows service, or windows console, or windows form application as the server.

I don't develop too many desktop / Windows Forms applications, but it had occurred to me that there may be some benefit to using the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern for Windows Forms .NET development.

The form is the view, and I have an IView interface for it. All the processing happens in the presenter, which is just a class. The form creates a new presenter, and passes itself as the presenter's IView. This way for testing you can pass in a fake IView instead, and then send commands to it from the presenter and detect the results.

This would fit with the classic MVC diagram. The biggest disadvantage is that with events, it can be hard to tell who's subscribing to what. The MVP pattern uses methods instead of events (at least the way I've implemented it). When the form/view raises an event (e.g. someButton.Click), the form simply calls a method on the presenter to run the logic for it. The view and model don't have any direct connection at all; they both have to go through the presenter.

Although having both View and Controller represented by the same object make separating code from representation way more difficult (there's no easy way to plug-in a "GTK+ view" in a class derived from Microsoft.Windows.Forms.Form).

What you can do, if you are careful enough. Is keep your form code completely separate from your controller/model code by only writing GUI related stuff in the event handlers, and all other business logic in a separate class. In that case, if you ever wanted to use GTK+ to write another View layer, you would only need to rewrite the GUI code.

The first is simple to start doing, but the further in you get, the more complex it is. I'd suggest looking for a good, preexisting and well-tested, MVC framework designed to work with Windows Forms. I believe this blog post is a decent starting point.

For anybody starting out, I'd suggest skipping Windows Forms and developing against WPF, if you have the option. It's a much better framework for creating the UI. There are many MVC frameworks being developed for WPF, including this one and that one.

According to Microsoft, the UIP Application Block mentioned by @jasonbunting is "archived." Instead, look at the Smart Client Application Block or the even newer Smart Client Software Factory, which supports both WinForms and WPF SmartParts.

Take a look at the MS Patterns and Practices Smart Client application block which has some guidance and classes which walk you through implementing a model view presenter patter in windows forms - take a look at the reference application included.

I have written a Windows Forms application and now I want to write some unit tests for it (not exactly test driven development seeing as I am writing the tests after I have developed but better late then never!) My question is that with such an application how do you go about writing the unit tests, given that nearly all of the methods and events are private? I have heard of NUnit Forms but I hear good and bad things about it, also there has been no real development on that project for a while so it looks abandoned. Also is it generally accepted that the project have have adequate unit testing in place if I wrote unit test cases for all of the events that a user would trigger by clicking/ pressing buttons, or would I have to go and write unit test cases for all methods and figure out a way to test my private methods?

EDIT: My business logic is seperated from my presentation logic, there is 1 or 2 public methods my business logic exposes so the form can access them, but what about all the private methods that are in the business logic?

The first thing I would do is to ensure that you have proper separation of your business logic from your form. Basically, using an MVC pattern. Then, you can easily test everything outside the form, as if the form didn't even exist.

Now, this could still leave some untested form-specific functionality. I.E., is the form wired-up to the service correctly? For this, then you could still consider something like NUnit Forms or another alternative.

Separate your business logic from your presentation logic. If you have a lot of private methods performing business logic in your UI, you've tightly coupled your business logic to your presentation. Start identifying these and moving them out to separate classes with public interfaces that you can test. Read up on SOLID principles, which can help you keep your code loosely coupled and testable.

These are usually referred to as seams; ways to get into your code for testing. and they are good. Sometime people confuse private/public with security, and are afraid to turn a private function public, but reflection will call either, so it's not really secure. Other times people are worried about the API interface to a class. But this only matters if you have a public API, and if you have a winform app, it is probably meant to be the top level (no other consumers are calling it.)

You are the programmer, and as such can design your code to be easy to test. This usually means little more than changing a few methods public and creating a few connivence methods that allow dependences to be passed in.

One may also test the code by driving the UI but this is not so highly recommended, because the resultant tests are (1) very fragile, (2) harder to get working, and IMHO, (3) can't be written at the same level of fine granuality as pure code tests; (4) Finally: if you use a database, you will need to consider populating it with test data, and, because your database must be in a clean, well-defined state before each test, (5) your tests may run even slower than your thought as you reinitialize the data for each test.

For the last 3 weeks I have been intensively learning docker and running it locally. It is really great and I love the simple clear commands, and the fact that it just works and diagnostics and errors are generally clear.

Could you please advise that are there any road map items to enable Docker Windows Container to support .NET WinForms C# applications?

I see tremendous values for this usecase with enterprise customers and .net developers to retain existing investments on .NET winforms apps and promotes acceleration for containerizing legacy .net windows applications. Please review and advise!

Hi All,

I am trying to develop a c# windows form app that shall run using rhino and also it will be a stand alone application. I start up the application via rhino command line. However Rhino UI(cannot modify the document at all) remains block till the application is not closed. Do I need to use another thread to run the external application inside Rhino or?

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