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Winforms.
Now long ago, there was a time with MFC with WatCom C/C++, and before that, MSDOS 6.1 w/QuickC, and before that PCDOS 3 and MassComp Fortran. Someone's room-sized IBM-something used Fortran 4 (punch cards).
Perhaps the missing answer, this time, is the great arbitrator (decision maker): "Show Me the Money".
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Most of my C or C++ Windows code is written directly to the Win32 API. I find it easier to use than many of the frameworks that purportedly package the API for you. If I could find a really thin layer which does not force the usage of spurious operator overloads (e.g. enlarging a rectangle with the += operator  ), I might consider using it for C++.
If forced to use a framework, I use WinForms.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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MFC is a pretty good thin wrapper over the win32 api
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Interesting - I chose WinForms too, because it is (for me) the most easy and efficient way to build things.
I don't like WPF and I am not a web guy, so it's the only thing left for me.
Pure Windows Desktop apps lost most of its value, the demand is low, I see them only developed company-internal for some propietary functions only this one company needs.
Most other things happen in browsers today.
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Mike Barthold wrote: the demand is low, I see them only developed company-internal for some propietary functions only this one company needs.
How about for interfacing with hardware, like scanners, scales, specialized printer (like Zebra label printers)... No way doing that in a web application as far as I know.
Lots of industries still use those.
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A client side REST service will do it. Not nice but possible.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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yup, for some small cheat programm, WinForm is fast .. use it myself (like 1-2 tools a year)
but if it has to look nice, i allways use WPf, it just needs some time to get used to XAML. 
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Yep. xaml is the reason why I don't use wpf.
it's such a chaotic mess.
Never could get beyond that point.
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it's not that hard to make WinForms look like WPF, since the system allows you to overwrite the drawing of any control. honestly the last WinForm project I did only took me a few minutes to get the layout correct and tested, then spent about a day overriding the onPaint handler for theme aware clean looking UI.
Easy enough to build a library of these things and extend some of the controls.
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I buy a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc.
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If Swing is included even though JavaFX replaces it, why isn't WPF included? I would choose WPF, so the closest is UWP and as I understand it WinUI is basically a fancy coat of paint on UWP with better WinRT support (correct me if I'm wrong, not a big UI guy).
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