Re: Good looking WinForms apps

[Glen Harvy]

No doubt this thread will be 'hijacked' into a Winforms vs WPF discussion however your later comments as to why appear perfectly valid to me except for one thing which need not be discussed here - .Net4 and .Net3.5 can co-exist as far as I know. Have a look at MyCourts. It's at http://www.mycourts.com.au . It's Winforms but uses DevExpress controls extensively. The DevEx controls and skins add enough glitz for my purposes.  I have often thought about porting it to WPF but have decided that the effort is not worth it. At the end of the day, I don't think WPF in itself will add one more sale of MyCourts to my bottom line. I understand that DevEx have a number of WPF controls as well so perhaps you could 'keep' some of the glitzy UI. You could perhaps sell the switch to your Manager without him actually being fully aware of your technical changes :-) Good luck. On 18/08/2011 2:33 PM, Matt Siebert wrote: Hi folks, Can anyone point out some particularly good looking WinForms apps?  Screenshots will do, a working app I could show someone would be better. This is a bit of a strange request so I should probably explain a little... We've built a product using WPF but we have lots of constraints imposed by the environment we're coding for.  This has caused a lot of extra work with more to come.  As such, I don't think WPF is the right choice and I'm trying to convince my manager that it's worth considering switching to WinForms which is much better suited to this environment.  He's not a developer and is fairly visually oriented, and he's worried that if we were to use WinForms then we may not be able to produce a good GUI / UX.  I've assured him that this isn't the case but some good examples would help. Cheers.